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FLUIDS Bulletin - 1st Issue
FLUIDS Project Partners:
MIZAR Automazione S.p.A. (Co-ordinator)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
DFKI German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH
Consorzio 5T
Although significant results have been gained from building the first
generation of intelligent multimedia presentation systems, until
recently there have been no promising attempts to assemble the
different lines of expertise into a common framework.
The lack of a well established methodological basis makes the
industrial development of intellimedia systems an expensive, high risk
undertaking.
The technical working group on ``Graphics and Knowledge
Engineering'' within the
Computer Graphics Network
of
ERCIM
,
the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics,
has made significant progress towards the development of a standard
reference model for intelligent multimedia presentation systems.
A first draft of a generic reference model has been devised to
serve as a basis for discussions (see Ruggieri et al.).
Furthermore, a workshop has been held during ECAI-96,
the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to bring
together leading researchers in the field of intelligent multimedia
presentation systems.
The high quality of the contributions and the results
obtained during the workshop form a promising basis for further
improvement of the preliminary version of the reference model.
The new release of the software development tool
Imagix 4D
constitutes an interesting example for the application of
knowledge-based exploration and information visualization technologies.
The product offered by
Imagix Corporation
(USA) provides software developers with high-performance, program
understanding tools for C and C++.
It helps to reverse engineer and document software that is complex,
large, or unfamiliar.
Knowledge-based graphics, as it is employed in
Imagix 4D
,
provides a broad range of linked and synchronized displays,
that go far beyond traditional call graphs and class hierarchies.
ECAI-96,
the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, indicates that
the sub-area of intelligent user interfaces receives ever growing
interest in the European Artificial Intelligence community.
The technical program of this leading bi-annual AI event included for the
first time a specific section devoted to intelligent user interfaces
and the preceding workshop program offered two
workshops related to this field as well.
Interestingly enough, one of the four invited talks was also concerned
with specific aspects of more advanced intelligent interfaces.
J. Cuena 1996 from the
Technical University of Madrid
reported on the experience gained from the development of
sophisticated real-time decision support systems.
This particular application area offers high potential for industrial
applications of knowledge-based techniques and more powerful
intelligent user interfaces are required since efficient and effective
human-machine interaction plays a decisive role in the context of
decision support.
Anthropomorphic interface agents, i.e. life-like animated characters
that interact with a user, add expressive power to a system's
communicative skills.
The potential for such highly personalized interfaces is also
recognized in Japan and the paper Kato et al. [1996] shows, that
research is now being actively conducted with regard to this so-called
persona technique.
A recent issue of
ACM Communications
,
the flagship publication of the
Association for Computing Machinery
,
makes clear that in the USA intelligent graphics is now seen as one of
the new important paradigms for computing.
The contribution by Lieberman provides some convincing
examples of real applications and advocates the amplification of
current research and development activities in the area of
knowledge-based graphics generation.
ABIS-96:
-
4th German Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling
in Interactive Software Systems ,
Dortmund, Germany, October 9-11, 1996.
The workshops in this series are specifically concerned with
theoretical and pratical aspects of user modeling.
The conference language is German.
-
PAKM'96:
-
First International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge
Management ,
Basel, Switzerland, October 30-31, 1996.
This conference includes some presentations related to user modeling
and intelligent user interfaces in general.
-
UIST'96:
-
Ninth Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ,
Seattle, Washington, USA, November 6-8, 1996.
The symposium brings together user-interface researchers and
practitioners with an interest in techniques, tools, and technology
for constructing high-quality, innovative user interfaces.
The scope of of the conference also includes so-called intelligent
user interfaces.
-
OzCHI'96:
-
Sixth Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction ,
Hamilton, New Zealand, November 24-27, 1996.
User modeling and intelligent user interfaces in general are among the
topics to be addressed by this conference.
UMUAI
,
the international journal on ``User Modeling and User-Adapted
Interaction'' constitutes a primary forum for the dissemination of new
research results in the area of user modeling.
The world wide web page related to the UMUAI journal is
located at
and provides various services like
UNICOM Seminars Ltd
issued a preannouncement for a seminar on ``Intelligent User
Interfaces'' as part of its series on ``Artificial Intelligence and
its Applications''.
The topics to be covered include:
- intelligent agents and agent-based interaction,
- cognitive user modelling, and
- evaluation of intelligent and agent based interfaces.
The event will take place in London on March 18-19, 1997.
- J. Cuena.
- Knowledge Oriented Application Development: Lessons Learnt from Real-Time Decision Support Systems. In: Proc. of the 12th ECAI , pp. 711-714, Budapest, Hungary, 1996.
- ECAI-96.
- Proc. of the 12th ECAI , Budapest, Hungary, 1996.
- T. Kato, Y. I. Nakano, H. Nakajima, T. Hasegawa.
- Interactive Multimodal Explanations and their Temporal Coordination. In: Proc. of the 12th ECAI , pp. 261-265, Budapest, Hungary, 1996.
- H. Lieberman.
- Intelligent Graphics. Communications of the ACM , 39(8), 38-48, 1996.
- S. Ruggieri, M. Bordegoni, G. P. Faconti, T. Rist, P. Trahanias, M. Wilson.
- The Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems: 1st Draft. In: G. P. Faconti, T. Rist, eds., Proc. of ECAI-96 Workshop ``Towards a Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems'' , Budapest, Hungary, 1996.
Gerd Herzog
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