Domain-specific chatbot applications often involve multi-step interactions, such as refining search filters, selecting multiple items, or performing comparisons. Traditional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) handle these workflows by providing explicit “Submit” (commit data) and “Reset” (discard data) actions, allowing back-end systems to track user intent unambiguously. In contrast, conversational agents rely on subtle language cues, which can lead to confusion and incomplete context management. This paper proposes modeling these GUI-inspired metaphors—acknowledgment (submit-like) and context switching (reset-like)—as explicit tasks within large language model (LLM) prompts. By capturing user acknowledgment, reset actions, and chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning as structured session data, we preserve clarity, reduce user confusion, and align domain-specific chatbot interactions with back-end logic. We demonstrate our approach in hotel booking and customer management scenarios, highlighting improvements in multi-turn task coherence, user satisfaction, and efficiency.

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Bridging UI Design and Chatbot Interactions: Applying Form-Based Principles to Conversational Agents

  • Sanjay Krishna Anbalagan,
  • Xinrui Nei,
  • Umesh Mohan,
  • Vijay Kumar Kanamarlapudi,
  • Anughna Kommalapati,
  • Xiaodan Zhao

摘要

Domain-specific chatbot applications often involve multi-step interactions, such as refining search filters, selecting multiple items, or performing comparisons. Traditional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) handle these workflows by providing explicit “Submit” (commit data) and “Reset” (discard data) actions, allowing back-end systems to track user intent unambiguously. In contrast, conversational agents rely on subtle language cues, which can lead to confusion and incomplete context management. This paper proposes modeling these GUI-inspired metaphors—acknowledgment (submit-like) and context switching (reset-like)—as explicit tasks within large language model (LLM) prompts. By capturing user acknowledgment, reset actions, and chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning as structured session data, we preserve clarity, reduce user confusion, and align domain-specific chatbot interactions with back-end logic. We demonstrate our approach in hotel booking and customer management scenarios, highlighting improvements in multi-turn task coherence, user satisfaction, and efficiency.