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Proactivity in an Intentionally Helpful Personal Assistive Agent

by Myers, K. L. and Yorke-Smith, N.

in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intentions in Intelligent Systems pp. 34–37,

Abstract

The increased scope and complexity of tasks that people perform as part of their routine work has led to growing interest in the development of intelligent personal assistive agents that can aid a human in managing and performing tasks. One desired capability for such agents is that they be able to act proactively to anticipate user needs, opportunities and problems, and then act on their own initiative to address them. This position paper outlines some initial thoughts on desired forms of proactive behavior, and identifies technical challenges in developing systems that embody such behaviors.

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Associated Projects

Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).

AIC Personnel

	Name	Title	E-mail
	Myers, Karen	Program Director & Principal Scientist
	Yorke-Smith, Neil	Computer Scientist