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ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Agent Competence on User Performance and Perception
We studied the role of the competence of an interface agent that helped users to learn and use a text editor. Participants in the study made a set of changes to a document with th...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
ITICSE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Agents help students in ProgrammingLand
ProgrammingLand is an online system for delivering content to introductory computer science courses as a substitute for a conventional textbook. Because the system has a large num...
Curt D. Hill, Vijayakumar Shanmugasundaram, Martin...
FLAIRS
2010
13 years 10 months ago
The Readability of Helpful Product Reviews
Consumers frequently rely on user-generated product reviews to guide purchasing decisions. Given the everincreasing volume of such reviews and variations in review quality, consum...
Michael P. O'Mahony, Barry Smyth
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Like an intuitive and courteous butler: a proactive personal agent for task management
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Mobile Objects and Mobile Agents: The Future of Distributed Computing?
This paper will lead you into the world of mobile agents, an emerging technology that makes it very much easier to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems. You will fin...
Danny B. Lange