Using Agentsheets to create a voice dialog design environment

Agentsheets is a tool for building interactive, graphical systems. It combines the ease of use of a construction kit with the flexibility of a visual programming environment. Agentsheets uses a grid structure to clarify spatial relationships such as adjacency, relative and absolute position, distance, and orientation. System designers can use the Agentsheets substrate to quickly create tailored, domainspecific graphical applications requiring simulation and spatial representations. The design and implementation of a voice dialog design environment using the Agentsheets substrate is described. By using Agentsheets, a mixed team of professional voice dialog designers and academic researchers were able to design and build a substantial core design environment in less than four months.