ERIC Number: ED267732
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Aug
Pages: 46
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GUIDON-WATCH: A Graphic Interface for Viewing a Knowledge-Based System. Technical Report #14.
Richer, Mark H.; Clancey, William J.
This paper describes GUIDON-WATCH, a graphic interface that uses multiple windows and a mouse to allow a student to browse a knowledge base and view reasoning processes during diagnostic problem solving. The GUIDON project at Stanford University is investigating how knowledge-based systems can provide the basis for teaching programs, and this paper specifically addresses GUIDON-WATCH as an interface to NEOMYCIN, a medical consultation system. Methods are presented for providing multiple views of hierarchical structures, overlaying results of a search process on top of static structures to make the strategy visible, and pictorially expressing evidence relations between findings and hypotheses. This work demonstrates the advantages of stating a diagnostic search procedure in a well-structured, rule-based language separate from domain knowledge. A number of issues in software design are also considered, including automatic management of a multiple-window display. (Author/THC)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA. Personnel and Training Research Programs Office.
Authoring Institution: Stanford Univ., CA. Dept. of Computer Science.
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