Online Paper: Franklin-SprSym98
All gadget and no representation makes Jack a dull environment.
David Franklin & Joshua Flachsbart
In an Intelligent Environment, the user and the environment work
together in a unique manner; the user expresses what he wishes to do,
and the environment recognizes his intentions and helps out however
it can. If well-implemented, such an environment allows the user to
interact with it in the manner that is most natural for him
personally. He should need virtually no time to learn to use it and
should be more productive once he has. But to implement a useful and
natural Intelligent Environment, the designers are faced with a
daunting task: they must design a software system that senses what
its users do, understands their intentions, and then responds
appropriately. In this paper we argue that, in order to function
reasonably in any of these ways, an Intelligent Environment must make
use of declarative representations of what the user might do. We
present our evidence in the context of the Intelligent Classroom, a
facility that aids a speaker in this way and uses its understanding
to produce a video of his presentation.
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