One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
Abstract. The inclusion of additional modalities into the communicative behavior of virtual agents besides speech has moved into focus of human-computer interface researchers, as h...
When they encounter problems with a novel or infrequently performed task, experienced users often complete their work by referring to manuals and trying task-oriented exploration....
Navigation in computer generated information spaces may be difficult, resulting in users getting “lost in hyperspace.” This work aims to build on research from the area of ci...
Anytime search algorithms solve optimisation problems by quickly finding a usually suboptimal solution and then finding improved solutions when given additional time. To deliver a...