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In the process of studying human tutoring sessions as a basis for building an intelligent tutoring system, we developed a computer dialogue system (CDS) that allows two PC users to communicate with each other over a telephone line by typing at a computer keyboard. CDS records the content of dialogue on a disk in a specified, well-formatted way. It also makes available a way to mimic some of the characteristics of face-to-face dialogue such as repair. It was developed in the Smartcom III (Hayes Communication package) environment. Thus, it is fast, portable, and easy to use. In addition, to help us study the recorded dialogues, we have also written a numbering program to label each turn and each sentence within each turn. Although CDS was originally designed for the study of tutorial dialogues between students and teachers, it can be used to conduct and record dialogues of any kind.
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This work was supported by the Cognitive Science Program, Office of Naval Research under Grant N00014-89-J-1952 (Grant Authority Identification Number NR4422554) to the Illinois Institute of Technology. The content does not reflect the position or policy of the government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. The first three authors are in the Computer Science Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Li, J., Seu, J.H., Evens, M. et al. Computer dialogue system (CDS): A system for capturing computer-mediated dialogue. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 24, 535–540 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203601
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