Interaction Paradigms for Human-Computer Cooperation in Graphical-Object Modeling

Modeling is the creation of graphical objects. It is a tedious task for users to perform, and too complex to be amenable to full automation. The notion of cooperative modeling, where a human and a computer system cooperate to perform the modeling task, therefore , has great appeal. We provide a comparative description of humancomputer cooperative interaction paradigms for creating graphical objects. This work serves three purposes: 1.) to present a conceptual framework for organizing known paradigms; 2.) to provide a basis for choosing among the set of existing paradigms; and 3.) to expose opportunities for developing new interaction paradigms with certain desirable combinations of characteristics.

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