Adaptive personal agents

Crabtree, I. B.; Soltysiak, S. J.; Thint, Marcus

doi:10.1007/bf01321172

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“…For example, a collaborator at British Telecom has developed a version of the RA that can find documents that are related to a current location based on GPS coordinates. 11 If a document is similar to a person's current context based on more than one field (e.g., if both the "from" field and body of a message partially match), a linear combination of the similarities are used based on weights defined in the templates. The template system is also used for queries, so fields can be parsed out of e-mail being written or Web pages being read.…”

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confidence: 99%

Just-in-time information retrieval agents

2000

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A just-in-time information retrieval agent (JITIR agent) is software that proactively retrieves and presents information based on a person's local context in an easily accessible yet nonintrusive manner. This paper describes three implemented JITIR agents: the Remembrance Agent, Margin Notes, and Jimminy. Theory and design lessons learned from these implementations are presented, drawing from behavioral psychology, information retrieval, and interface design. They are followed by evaluations and experimental results. The key lesson is that users of JITIR agents are not merely more efficient at retrieving information, but actually retrieve and use more information than they would with traditional search engines.

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Section: Implementationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Just-in-time information retrieval agents

2000

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“…Crabtree et al [41] present the results of a userprofiling trial within a system which presents personalised information to users based on their interests. The paper shows how using a common profile and sharing it between multiple personal applications can track user interests more accurately and apply personalisation more effectively.…”

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“…The two broad categories illustrated by the papers in this Special Issue highlight how this might be achieved. The first three papers [41][42][43] show techniques for presenting information to individuals. They report on various developments such as improved techniques for user modelling and profile acquistion, and information filtering and presentation; these could be characterised as the "visible" elements of agent technology.…”

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Software agents and issues in personalisation: Technology to accommodate individual users

Keeble

Macredie

1998

Personal Technologies

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This paper provides a background to the somewhat nebulous field of computing known as "software agent technology". It gives both an overview of some of the key issues faced by the field, and illustrates the context for the papers contained in the rest of the special issue. The paper begins with a brief introduction to the field and proceeds to survey existing work, showing where overlaps exist between agent technology research and interrelated fields such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). The paper then alters focus to concentrate on applications to the personalisation of systems and services to individual users, and techniques which offer opportunities in this area. The other papers in the Special Issue then form the basis for a review of the current state of the art in the personalisation of Systems using agent technology. The paper concludes by offering some suggestions for future development of the technologies mentioned.

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“…In handling all the service options, there will be a role for intelligent personal agents and profiles to manage the mushrooming complexity. Personal Agents [14] adapt and learn users interests and needs to be able to perform specific tasks on the users behalf. A good example is a personal agent that learns how to manage a users incoming e-mail, and automate the filing or deleting of irrelevant messages.…”

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Wearable location mediated telecommunications; a first step towards contextual communication

Bowskill

Billinghurst²,

Crabtree³

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Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers

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Wearable computers provide constant access to computing and communications resources. In this paper we describe how the computing power of wearables can enhance computer-mediated communications, with a focus upon collaborative working. In particular we describe the idea of contextual communication, where contextual cues collected by the wearable computer are used to establish and enhance communication links. We describe the hardware and software technology we have developed to support contextual communication and two experimental contextual communication systems. The first, a wearable conferencing tool uses the user's physical location to select the on line conference which they connect to. The second, MetaPark, is a mixed reality educational experiment which explores communications, data retrieval and recording, and navigation techniques within and across real and virtual environments.

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Adaptive personal agents

Cited by 20 publications

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Just-in-time information retrieval agents

Just-in-time information retrieval agents

Software agents and issues in personalisation: Technology to accommodate individual users

Wearable location mediated telecommunications; a first step towards contextual communication

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