Greg Detre
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Beating some common sense into
interactive applications
small size of infinity (estimates from 20m to several billions)
applications for common sense
conversational applications (e.g. question answering or story understanding) vs software agents (e.g. AI programs that play an assistive role to the user, or adjunts to interactive applications)
software agents are much better suited to common sense
even if it doesn�t work you just carry on using the interface and ignore it
continuously running, role of giving help/suggestions occasionally
failsoft
conversational apps � only one chance, user expects highly accurate response
look for situations where:
even a
little knowledge helps
knowing a
little about a lot is better than specialisation
underconstrained UI (why???)
common sense as what�s shared (within a group), and doesn�t need to be stated
defaults, assumptions, plausibility
broad but shallow (???)
aarp???
mindpixel???