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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.
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