From: Jurgen Vinju
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:34:38 +0200
Subject: PEM | 16.08.01 | M.279

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   Dear Colleagues,
   
   This week we have the opportunity to listen to 2 students which will
   give a presentation on the Master Thesis Reseach. Zohra Bouguillara
   and Tesla Ganpat will talk about TBHelp and generic tool to add a help
   facility to ToolBus applications.
   
   This announcement can be found with links at
   <http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/jurgenv/pem/pem.cgi?997956000>
   
    Student PEM - TBHelp: A Help Authoring Tool for ToolBus Applications
                                      
   Date:    16.08.01
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M.279
   Speaker: Zohra Bouguillara and Tesla Ganpat
   Title:   Student PEM - TBHelp: A Help Authoring Tool for ToolBus Application
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   In large software systems the user interface and system are often
   complex and difficult to navigate. It is necessary to provide users
   with online help to support users in effectively using applications.
   Such online help systems can include providing online documentation
   such as quick tours, online manuals, tutorials and other collections
   of information. Building online help systems can be a time-consuming
   and complex process, especially when large navigational structures are
   required. Help authoring tools can save substantial effort in building
   help systems for applications by automating the process of creating
   and organizing help content as much as possible. In this paper, we
   investigate how such help authoring support can be developed and
   provided in the context of a component interconnection architecture,
   the ToolBus. After a review on modern help authoring tools and online
   help systems, we developed a component-based help authoring tool,
   TBHelp. The software components of TBHelp are interconnected with the
   ToolBus software architecture and each component automates part of the
   help authoring process. TBHelp generates HTML-based help systems that
   can be viewed on any HTML browser and provides basic help features.
   
   Have a nice day.
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