Fwd: TALK:Friday 4-18-08 Twenty Questions to Name That Bird
Jonathan A Rees
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> Subject: TALK:Friday 4-18-08 Twenty Questions to Name That Bird
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> Twenty Questions to Name That Bird
> HCI Seminar Series Spring 2008
> Speaker: Andreas Paepke
> Speaker Affiliation: Stanford University
> Host: Rob Miller
> Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL
>
> Date: 4-18-2008
> Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
> Refreshments: 1:45 PM
> Location: Patil/Kiva Seminar Room G449
>
> We constructed EcoPod, a PDA-based tool that helps skilled amateurs
> identify plants and animals out in the field. The tool is intended
> for biodiversity census activities. EcoPod asks its user questions
> about the organism that it is deployed to help identify. Users may
> attach evidence to each answer, and they may register uncertainty
> with their decision. I will describe EcoPod and then move to a
> specific problem we needed to solve in its design: The tool should
> ask as few questions as possible so as to optimize the user
> experience. We use well-known decision tree and information gain
> theory towards this optimization. I will sketch this approach and
> show how we use historic species observation data to optimize
> typical usage patterns further. At one point I will use the concept
> of Swiss Raclette to explain an AI concept.
>
> Speaker Biography:
> Dr. Andreas Paepcke is a Senior Research Scientist and director of
> the Digital Library and BioACT Projects at Stanford University. His
> interests include user interfaces for small devices, novel Web
> search facilities, and browsing facilities for digital artifacts
> that are difficult to index. With his group of students he has
> designed and implemented WebBase, an experimental storage and high
> speed dissemination system for Web contents. His work on small
> devices has focused on novel methods for summarizing and
> transforming Web pages, and on browsing images on small displays.
> He serves on the editorial board of the ACM TWEB journal and is
> program chair for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
> 2008. Dr. Paepcke received BS and MS degrees in applied mathematics
> from Harvard University, where
> he enjoyed the cross-registration agreement with MIT, and a Ph.D.
> in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
> Previously, he worked as a researcher at Hewlett-Packard
> Laboratory, and as a research consultant at Xerox PARC.
>
>
> Joint work with Aswath Manoharan, YuanYuan Yu, and Jeannie Stamberger.
>
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> msbe...@mit.edu
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