A good design allows users to try out options without penalizing trials.

Kirsh argued that we are not just passively reacting to computer-generated options.

Kirsh argued that users need to actively explore interfaces to become aware of the available functions and how they work.

Kirsh points out that Norman's model makes an unrealistic assumption: The user is assumed to know the environment and its options and is merely picking an option.

Generally, it is beneficial when mixed-initiative interfaces learn and adapt to individual users.

A mixed-initiative interface needs to infer the user's goals so that it can act upon them.

Mixed-initiative interaction is the idea of organizing interaction in dialogue where both the computer and the human can take initiative.

Code-switching refers to a switch in language to match the capabilities of the communication partner.

According to Suchman, robustness is a key consideration in the design of dialogue.

Human–machine interaction, according to Suchman, is similar to but different from human–human dialogue.

Communication between humans and computers is a long-standing topic of HCI research.

FSMs are an effective way to describe how dialogue is structured; however, they are limited to memory-free dialogue.

An FSM can be graphically presented as a graph where nodes represent states and edges represent transitions.

An FSM is a model of discrete computation applicable to dialogues.

A mode refers to the variation in the interpretation of a user's input according to an internal state.

Dialogue can be described using models of computation from computer science.

Affordance, which we discussed in Chapter 3, refers to how well users can interpret what actions are possible with a widget.

Mapping and feedback are crucial concepts for understanding a computer's turn.

Norman offered two central concepts to help us understand these cognitive efforts: the gulf of execution and the gulf of evaluation.

A significant early theory of dialogue interaction is the seven-stage model of Norman [600].

Fourth, both the computer and the user may have initiative.

Third, in dialogue, both the computer and the human participate in establishing a shared context.

Second, both dialogues in Figure 18.1 evolve in a turn-based manner.

Both are forms of dialogue.

This broad definition has several immediate and important consequences for HCI.

In one turn, an appropriate communication act is made by one partner based on the communication context.

The key idea in the dialogue view of interaction is the organization of communication as a series of turns.

The dialogue view of interaction evolved early in the history of computing.

In human–computer interaction (HCI), the communication partners are an interactive system and the user of such a system.

Interaction may be viewed as a dialogue, that is, a conversation that occurs between two partners in a context for some purpose.