Intelligent Interface Agents
6 January 1998, 9:30am-12:30pm
Henry Lieberman
Research Scientist
Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Mass, USA
Benefits
Attendees will come away with a real, no-nonsense understanding of "the agent phenomenon"; why people are excited about agents, what the range of applicability of interface agent systems is, what is good and bad about agents, how to learn more about agents, and what is necessary to build them.
Origins
This tutorial is new for IUI'98.
Features
 | What's an Agent?
| Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, and from Human-Computer Interaction
| Controversies about Agents
| Architectual Considerations for Agent Interfaces
| Learning Techniques for Interface Agents
| Examples of Agent Systems
| Programming and User Interface Design for Agent Systems
| Resources for learning about the Agents field
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Audience
Applications developers, user interface designers, technically literate managers, potential users of agent applications, students, and researchers. No specific prior experience assumed.
Presentation
Lectures, discussions, videos, and live demonstrations of agent systems. We will also, time permitting, do some interactive exercises, such as "Wizard of Oz" experiments, and "short-order programming" exercises.
Instructors
Henry Lieberman has been a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory since 1987. He is a member of the Software Agents group, which is concerned with making intelligent software that assists users in interactive interfaces. His current projects involve intelligent agents for the Web that learn by "watching what you do". Other projects include an interactive graphic editor that learns from examples, and from annotation on images and video; debugging and visualization for programing environments, and new graphic metaphors for information visualization and navigation. From 1972-87, he was a researcher at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he worked in the group that originally developed Logo, and with Carl Hewitt on Actors. He introduced the notion of prototypes in object-oriented systems. He holds a doctoral-equivalent degree from the University of Paris VI and was a Visiting Professor there in 1989-90.