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Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hong Sheng University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 48 , Issue 2 (February 2005) table of contents
Medical image modeling
Pages: 85 - 90
Year of Publication: 2005
ISSN:0001-0782
Abstract:
Mobile and wireless devices are enabling organizations to conduct business more effectively. Mobile applications can be used to support e-commerce with customers and suppliers, and to conduct e-business within and across organizational boundaries. Despite these benefits, organizations and their customers still lack an understanding of the value of mobile applications. Value is defined here as the principles for evaluating the consequences of action, inaction, or decision [4]. The value proposition of mobile applications can be defined as the net value of the benefits and costs associated with the adoption and adaptation of mobile applications [2].
My Discussion:
The first time I read this article, directly in CACM, I wondered why anyone bothered. The result seemed to be a very obvious network of goals people in corporations wanted to achieve by using mobile applications, and the problems creating such applications that people in the mobile applications community have known about for ages. Re-reading it now, I realize it is a fundamental paper to reference when a researcher needs to have solid empirical justification for why certain problems are being worked on, and good pointers to what people in the field say the problems are with mobile applications. They may seem obvious to us in the field, but they still need to be properly discussed when doing science.
An agent-based approach to dialogue management in personal assistants
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hong Sheng University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 48 , Issue 2 (February 2005) table of contents
Medical image modeling
Pages: 85 - 90
Year of Publication: 2005
ISSN:0001-0782
Abstract:
Mobile and wireless devices are enabling organizations to conduct business more effectively. Mobile applications can be used to support e-commerce with customers and suppliers, and to conduct e-business within and across organizational boundaries. Despite these benefits, organizations and their customers still lack an understanding of the value of mobile applications. Value is defined here as the principles for evaluating the consequences of action, inaction, or decision [4]. The value proposition of mobile applications can be defined as the net value of the benefits and costs associated with the adoption and adaptation of mobile applications [2].
My Discussion:
The first time I read this article, directly in CACM, I wondered why anyone bothered. The result seemed to be a very obvious network of goals people in corporations wanted to achieve by using mobile applications, and the problems creating such applications that people in the mobile applications community have known about for ages. Re-reading it now, I realize it is a fundamental paper to reference when a researcher needs to have solid empirical justification for why certain problems are being worked on, and good pointers to what people in the field say the problems are with mobile applications. They may seem obvious to us in the field, but they still need to be properly discussed when doing science.
[My apologies for being so very very late, but I had this website to launch.]
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Anh Nguyen University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wayne Wobcke University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces< archive
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces table of contents
San Diego, California, USA
SESSION: Long papers: natural language and gestural input table of contents
Pages: 137 - 144
Year of Publication: 2005
ISBN:1-58113-894-6
Abstract:
Personal assistants need to allow the user to interact with the system in a flexible and adaptive way such as through spoken language dialogue. In this research we focus on an application in which the user can use a variety of devices to interact with a collection of personal assistants each specializing in a task domain such as email or calendar management, information seeking, etc. We propose an agent-based approach for developing the dialogue manager that acts as the central point maintaining continuous user-system interaction and coordinating the activities of the assistants. In addition, this approach enables development of multi-modal interfaces. We describe our initial implementation which contains an email management agent that the user can interact with through a spoken dialogue and an interface on PDAs. The dialogue manager was implemented by extending a BDI agent architecture.
My Discussion:
The paper is very useful for showing where current thinking about agents and agent-based technologies is, going briefly over current definitions of agents plus supplying references to further reading. The same goes for the linguistic structure of dialogs. If you have spent the last decade of your UI career not following these fields but focussing on WWW technologies, it is a good glimpse on what went on. The paper tries to show in a concise format how the system derives meaning from the user's utterances, and how it keeps track of what objects are in play to likely be acted on. The paper also has the perfunctory paragraphs about related systems, so as to satisfy reviewers who want to see some form of scientific context for what is the description of a technical system.
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Anh Nguyen University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wayne Wobcke University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces< archive
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces table of contents
San Diego, California, USA
SESSION: Long papers: natural language and gestural input table of contents
Pages: 137 - 144
Year of Publication: 2005
ISBN:1-58113-894-6
Abstract:
Personal assistants need to allow the user to interact with the system in a flexible and adaptive way such as through spoken language dialogue. In this research we focus on an application in which the user can use a variety of devices to interact with a collection of personal assistants each specializing in a task domain such as email or calendar management, information seeking, etc. We propose an agent-based approach for developing the dialogue manager that acts as the central point maintaining continuous user-system interaction and coordinating the activities of the assistants. In addition, this approach enables development of multi-modal interfaces. We describe our initial implementation which contains an email management agent that the user can interact with through a spoken dialogue and an interface on PDAs. The dialogue manager was implemented by extending a BDI agent architecture.
My Discussion:
The paper is very useful for showing where current thinking about agents and agent-based technologies is, going briefly over current definitions of agents plus supplying references to further reading. The same goes for the linguistic structure of dialogs. If you have spent the last decade of your UI career not following these fields but focussing on WWW technologies, it is a good glimpse on what went on. The paper tries to show in a concise format how the system derives meaning from the user's utterances, and how it keeps track of what objects are in play to likely be acted on. The paper also has the perfunctory paragraphs about related systems, so as to satisfy reviewers who want to see some form of scientific context for what is the description of a technical system.
