User interface softbots
Abstract:
Softbots in the interface Human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI) share a long history of research. Concepts such as problem spaces, goals and operators, rationality, and computational models of cognition have significantly influenced research directions in both fields. Recently the concept of agents has sparked a common interest among AI and HCI researchers. Our demonstration focuses on interface agents, those that assist the user in the rich, often complex environment of the graphical user interface (Maes 1994; Lieberman 1995). Our general interest lies in the interaction between agents and their environments. Conventional interface agents interact with other applications through an application programming interface (API) or access to source code. We have developed
Citations
| 827 | Agents that reduce work and information overload – Maes - 1994 |
| 744 | Fast Planning through Plangraph Analysis – Blum, Furst - 1995 |
| 468 | Letizia, an agent that assists web browsing – Lieberman - 1995 |
| 25 | User interface affordances in a planning representation – Amant - 1999 |
| 17 | A visual medium for programmatic control of interactive applications – Amant - 1999 |
| 16 | An Imprecise Mouse Gesture for the Fast Activation of Controls – Dulberg, Amant, et al. - 1999 |
| 16 | Visual generalization in programming by example – Amant, Lieberman, et al. - 2000 |
| 10 | Recent advances – Weld - 1999 |
| 3 | A practical perception substrate for cognitive modeling in HCI. Forthcoming – Amant, Riedl, et al. - 2000 |
| 1 | The user interface as an agent environment. Forthcoming – Amant, Zettlemoyer - 2000 |
| 1 | Interface agents as surrogate users. Forthcoming – Amant - 2000 |
