{"pk":32906,"title":"Language Evolution and Human-Computer Interaction","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Many of the issues that confront designers of interactive computer systems ako appear in natural language evolution. Natural languages and human-computer interfaces share as their primary mission the support of extended \"dialogues\" between responsive entities. Because in each case one participant is a human being, some of the pressures operating on natural languages, causing them to evolve in order to better support such dialogue, also operate on human-computer \"languages\" or interfaces. This does not necessarily push interfaces in the direction of natural language— since one entity in this dialogue is not a human, this is not to be expected. Nonetheless, by discerning where the pressures that guide natural language evolution also appear in human-computer interaction, we can contribute to the design of computer systems and obtain a new perspective on natural languages.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations -- Discovery Learning","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tj9q1g2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Grudin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aarhus University","department":""},{"first_name":"Donald","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Norman","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1991-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32906/galley/23966/download/"}]}