AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium
Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants
26-28 March 2007, Stanford University, CA, USA
Schedule
The symposium will take place in the History Building, room 200-205. The poster and demonstration session will be held in the Cummings Art Building, Annenberg Auditorium.
| Monday 26 March | ||
| 08:50 | welcome | |
| 09:00 | invited talk | |
| A User Acceptance Equation for Intelligent Assistants | Brad Myers (CMU) | |
| 10:00 | best paper | |
| Why and How to Model Multi-Modal Interaction for a Mobile Robot Companion [movies] | Shuyin Li and Britta Wrede | |
| 10:30 | break | |
| 11:00 | session: Desktop Assistants | commentary: Anthony Tomasic |
| Towel: Towards an Intelligent To-Do List | Kenneth Conley and James Carpenter | |
| Enhancing Interaction with To-Do Lists: Using Artificial Assistants | Yolanda Gil and Timothy Chklovski | |
| Improving Intelligent Assistants for Desktop Activities | Simone Stumpf, Margaret Burnett, Tom Dietterich | |
| 12:30 | lunch | |
| 14:00 | poster and demonstration session | Annenberg Auditorium |
| An Adaptive, Emotional, and Expressive Reminding System | Nadine Richard | |
| An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Guiding Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions | Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, Grace Chern, Donghui Feng | |
| Bringing the User Back into Scheduling: Two Case Studies of Interaction with Intelligent Scheduling Assistants | Pauline Berry, Bart Peintner, Neil Yorke-Smith | |
| Effective Interaction Strategies for Adaptive Reminding | Julie S. Weber and Martha E. Pollack | |
| Effectiveness of Mobile Recommender Systems for Tourist Destinations: A User Evaluation | Marko Modsching, Ronny Kramer, Klaus ten Hagen, Ulrike Gretzel | |
| Enhancing Interaction with To-Do Lists: Using Artificial Assistants | Yolanda Gil and Timothy Chklovski | |
| Eye Gaze for Attention Prediction in Multimodal Human-Machine Conversation | Zahar Prasov, Joyce Y. Chai, Hogyeong Jeong | |
| Intent Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction | Andreas G. Hofmann and Brian C. Williams | |
| Involving Intelligent Assistants in Active Human Communication | Donald J. Patterson | |
| Learning Interaction Between Conflicting Human Agents and Their Assistants | Boris Galitsky and Boris Kovalerchuk | |
| Supporting Air Traffic Flow Management with Agents | Shawn R. Wolfe | |
| Evaluating Proactive Support in ROBOCARE: The User's View | Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa, Maria Vittoria Giuliani, Federico Pecora, Massimiliano Scopelliti, Lorenza Tiberio | |
| Task Learning by Instruction: Benefits and Challenges for Intelligent Interactive Systems | Jim Blythe, Prateek Tandon, Mandar Tillu | |
| The Smart Personal Assistant: An Overview | Wayne Wobcke, Anh Nguyen, Van Ho, Alfred Krzywicki | |
| User Constructed Data Integration via Mixed-Initiative Design | Anthony Tomasic, John Zimmerman, Ian Hargrave | |
| VizScript: Visualizing Complex Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems | Jing Jin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Romeo Sanchez, Pedro Szekely | |
| 15:30 | break | |
| 16:00 | session: Learning | commentary: Melinda Gervasio |
| Implications of Adaptive vs. Adaptable UIs on Decision Making: Why "Automated Adaptiveness" is Not Always Right | Christopher A. Miller, Harry Funk, Robert Goldman, John Meisner, Peggy Wu | |
| Task Learning by Instruction: Benefits and Challenges for Intelligent Interactive Systems | Jim Blythe, Prateek Tandon, Mandar Tillu | |
| An Adaptive, Emotional, and Expressive Reminding System | Nadine Richard and Seiji Yamada | |
| A Meeting Browser that Learns | Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver, John Niekrasz | |
| 18:00 | reception | Oak Lounge, Tresidder Union |
| Tuesday 27 March | ||
| 09:00 | session: Trust | commentary: Donald J. Patterson |
| Enabling Trust with Behavior Metamodels | Scott A. Wallace | |
| Engendering Trust in Buying and Selling Agents by Discouraging the Reporting of Unfair Ratings | Jie Zhang and Robin Cohen | |
| Explaining Task Processing in Cognitive Assistants That Learn | Deborah L. McGuinness, Alyssa Glass, Michael Wolverton, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva | |
| 10:30 | break | |
| 11:00 | invited talk | |
| Interaction Challenges for Agents with Common Sense | Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab) | |
| 12:00 | best application paper | |
| Supporting Interaction in the ROBOCARE Intelligent Assistive Environment [movies] | Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa, Federico Pecora, Riccardo Rasconi | |
| 12:30 | lunch | |
| 14:00 | panel and working groups | moderators: Adriana Tapus and Neil Yorke-Smith |
| joint with Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics | ||
| 15:30 | break | |
| 16:00 | session: When to Assist? | commentary: Simone Stumpf |
| When Is Assistance Really Helpful? | Wayne Iba | |
| A Decision-Theoretic Model of Assistance - Evaluation, Open Problems and Extensions | Sriraam Natarajan, Kshitij Judah, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern | |
| The Need for Assistants that Monitor Cognitive Abilities | Bart Peintner and William Jarrold | |
| 18:00 | plenary session | Annenberg Auditorium |
| Wednesday 28 March | ||
| 09:00 | panel and guided discussion: "Intention and Interaction" | moderator: Pauline Berry |
| joint with Symposium on Intentions for Intelligent Systems | ||
| 10:30 | break | |
| 11:00 | session: Modelling | commentary: Patrick Ehlen |
| An Intelligent Discussion-Bot for Guiding Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions | Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, Grace Chern, Donghui Feng | |
| Modeling Human-Agent Interaction with Active Ontologies | Didier Guzzoni, Adam Cheyer, Charles Baur | |
| Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication | Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers, Brian Stankiewicz | |
| 12:30 | adjurn | |
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