@techreport{TR-IC-98-23, number = {IC-98-23}, author = {Antonio Mendes da {Silva Filho} and Hans Kurt E. Liesenberg}, title = {Capturing Computer-Human Interaction Design via the Protagonist Action Notation}, month = {June}, year = {1998}, institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 14 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} With the recent increase in popularity of the Internet a new user population has emerged with little expertise to use interactive systems. Hence, developing interfaces for such systems has required the involvement of experts of several areas. A further observation is that about $50\%$ of the time and resources are consumed just for the interface component of well-designed interactive systems. In order to contribute to the quality improvement of interface components as well as to make the development process of such components more effective, a specification technique for Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), called Protagonist Action Notation (PAN) is presented. PAN along with the Task Coordination Model (TCM) are used to represent the control aspects of the CHI Design. An example of a networked Web game called NetConnect4 illustrates the use of PAN. } }