{"pk":32935,"title":"Button Theory: A Taxononmy of Student-Teacher Communication for Interface Design in Computer-Based Learning Environment","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces Button Theory whose two principle goals are, first, to provide a taxonomy of the ways that students might usefully interact with and control a computerbased teacher, and second, to provide a natural mechanism by which they may exercise that control. W e have developed a small but comprehensive set of messages that students would find it useful to convey to a teacher during a tutorial interaction, and have associated each message with a button presented iconically on the computer screen W e describe our experience with the use of Button Theory in a prototype computer-based teaching system, and demonstrate how, even with rather simple mechanisms, this framework enables surprisingly rich interactions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8f88w959","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Menachem","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jona","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Benjamin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bell","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Lawrence","middle_name":"","last_name":"Birnbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northwestern University","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/32935/galley/23995/download/"}]}