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HCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Visual Agent Programming (VAP): An Interactive System to Program Animated Agents
An interactive system in which the user can program animated agents visually is introduced: the Visual Agent Programming (VAP) software provides a GUI to program life-like agents. ...
Kamran Khowaja, Sumanta Guha
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Power tools and composite tools: integrating automation with direct manipulation
This paper describes a drawing system that incorporates two novel interaction techniques based on analogies to physical tools. Power tools add limited autonomy in the form of rota...
John M. Daughtry, Robert St. Amant
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Security when people matter: structuring incentives for user behavior
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Rick Wash, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
AAAI
1994
13 years 9 months ago
An Experiment in the Design of Software Agents
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
OWL-P: OWL for protocol and processes
We describe OWL-P (OWL for Processes and Protocols), a methodology and software tool for specifying and enacting interaction protocols among autonomous agents. We use the Web Onto...
Ashok U. Mallya, Nirmit Desai, Amit K. Chopra, Mun...