Users of complex applications need advice, assistance, and feedback while they work. We are experimenting with “adjunct” user agents that are aware of the history of interacti...
Robert G. Farrell, Peter G. Fairweather, Eric Brei...
The ability to deliver appropriate information to learners at the most appropriate time is an essential component of good instruction. In the best learning environments, this info...
Design problems involve issues of stylistic preference and flexible standards of success; human designers often proceed by intuition and are unaware of following any strict rule-b...
Our central claim is that user interactions with everyday productivity applications (e.g., word processors, Web browsers, etc.) provide rich contextual information that can be lev...
The ability to quickly explore and compare multiple scenarios is an important component of exploratory data analysis. Yet today’s interfaces cannot represent alternative explora...
We describe a user interface for wireless information devices, specifically designed to facilitate learning about users’ individual interests in daily news stories. User feedbac...
We have explored a novel method to find textual relations in electronic documents using genetic programming and semantic networks. This can be used for enhancing information retri...
This article is about applications that can be customized or extended through their own user interface. This is achieved by the interface’s ability to interpret users’ non-lit...
Prior research into embodied interface agents has found that users like them and find them engaging. In this paper, we argue that embodiment can serve an even stronger function if...
Justine Cassell, Timothy W. Bickmore, Hannes H&oum...