Workshop - The Reality of Intelligent Interface Technology - Edinburgh, 25th March 1997
Sandra Foubister
The Reality Of Intelligent Interface Technology
A one day workshop organised jointly by the Intelligent Interfaces
Special Interest Group (IISIG) and the British HCI group.
Tuesday 25th March 1997
Napier University, Edinburgh
10.30 a.m. - 16.30 p.m.
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Intelligent Interface Technology (IIT) includes any application of
knowledge-based, or artificial intelligence techniques to interface
development. In this sense it encompasses other terms such as 'adaptive
system', 'intelligent (user) interface' or 'adaptive interface' as well
as including agent-based interaction. The aim of this workshop is to
examine the realities of this technology.
Many claims are now being made by software developers that their systems
use agents, or have an intelligent user interface. However, often these
claims seem excessive: a database query can be described as if it were
an agent (users simply state what they want and the query 'agent'
searches the database and finds it!), a spell-checker can be described
as behaving intelligently in that it makes suggestions. Many of the best
state-of-the art agents employ very simple algorithms in order to make
recommendations of music or web sites that people might like. To what
extent are such 'wizards' intelligent?
Such applications seem a long way from the theoretical view of
intelligent interface technology and from the visions of
'indirect management instead of direct manipulation'. The purpose of
this workshop is to explore the realities of intelligent interface
technology - both at the present time and for the next few years.
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Programme
10.30 Coffee and Registration
11.00 Introduction to the workshop
David Benyon, Napier University
11.05 Intelligent Interface Technology: From Theory to Reality?
Michael McTear, University of Ulster
11.30 Facilitating a fully adaptive, intelligent interface.
Anthony Lennard and Alan Parkes, Lancaster University
11.55 HAIKU : An Dynamic, Self Organising, Interface for Data Mining.
Andy Pryke, Birmingham University
12.20 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Computer Aided Design and the web:
the role of the intelligent interface.
John Lee, Edinburgh University
14.25 A machine learning approach for WWW adaptive interfaces.
Stefania Errore, CORINTO, Italy
14.50 The challenge to design intelligent consumer and domestic
product interfaces.
John Bonner, Teeside University
15.15 Tea
15.35 Steps to take before Intelligent User Interfaces become real.
Kristina Hook, SICS, Sweden
16.00 Discussion
16.30 Close
British HCI Group / IISIG Joint Meeting
THE REALITY OF INTELLIGENT INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY
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Tuesday 25th March 1997
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