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Interface Agents Interface Agents: Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Ubiquitous Computing Vs
Interface Agents Interface Agents: Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Ubiquitous Computing Vs
Interface Agents Interface Agents: Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Ubiquitous Computing Vs
Individuals change, innovation continues Some metaphors become ingrained as world views
Laboratories ranging from physics to Plato’s metaphors of ideal forms and knowledge
anthropology, all working together. as viewing shadows in a cave influencing 2,000
years of theories of knowing
· Connection to Xerox
Rousseau’s "Noble Savage" influence in the French
PARC technology in nearly every product revolution, morals, cruel experiments on
Research a vital part of The Document Company children
The metaphor of the "master molecule" delayed
biochemical understanding
Technology Trends
displays
processors
low power
packaging
wireless
- is in many small and large places, including trivial · computer architecture, hardware and software:
ones postit-note computers, low power O.S., multimedia
pad computers
What is the interface agent metaphor? Example of the different points of view:
Pilot’s Assistant
"I think of a personalized computer as something like a
well-trained, long-standing English butler -- someone The goal of the pilot’s assistant is to enhance the ability
intimately aware of your idiosyncrasies, your habits, of the pilot to fly the airplane
your friends, your goals, and who you deal with."
· Interface agent: like a co-pilot
· You talk to it
watching the planes systems and the situation
· It watches us and learns our needs
offering advice, answering questions
· It has "knowledge", is "aware", or has a personality
· Ubicomp: like a simpler, better airplane
· It is an assistant
the arrangement of controls, displays, windows,
seats, etc.
the ability to act is enhanced by the total system
no locus of expertise
· For example: being alerted of a potential collision
agent: "collision, collision, go right and down"
ubicomp: background presentation of airspace
information for continuous spatial awareness, as
in everyday life. You’ll no more run into another
airplane than you would try to walk through a
wall.
Better: people are opportunists, muddling through, · Myth 4: hierarchical organization is helpful
never doing exactly the same thing twice
Better: success in leading comes from understanding,
coaching and enabling, not commanding
What’s wrong with the interface agent Some limitations of the interface agent
metaphor? metaphor
· You talk to it · It does not go far enough
but what you can say is no different from what you it stops at the notion of an assistant
can type: i.e. you lisp at it
much better is the intuitive or anticipatory
Myths 1 and 3 computer, that needs no commands
· It watches us and learns our needs aim for an extension of our body, or integration of
mind/body/world
but has no human context for needs
· It keeps the computer in the foreground
Myths 2 and 3
personal computer is the wrong idea, intimate
· It has "knowledge", is "aware", has a personality
computer even worse
must Artificial Intelligence be solved first?
invisible computer is best
Myths 2 and 3
· It stays within an old paradigm
· It is an assistant
breakthroughs less likely, because area well
it is underfoot studied
DWIM WIWYHIAFI
do what I mean when I want your help I’ll ask for it