Human-Centered, Intelligent Agents Supporting Communication and Collaboration in domain-Oriented Design Environments

IRI-9311839 Fischer，Gerhard University of Colorado-Boulder $70，000 - 12 mos. 以人为中心的智能代理支持面向领域的设计环境中的通信和协作 这是一个为期三年的连续奖的第三年资助。计算机系统的研究人员和用户越来越意识到，基于“工具”隐喻的系统不能扩展到未来的信息丰富的高功能系统。 这个项目的目标是（1）理论和概念框架的扩展和（2）原型系统的设计，实现和评估，以适应需要和评估的贡献，支持面向领域的设计环境中的通信和协作的智能代理。 该研究将探索智能代理嵌入到面向领域的设计环境中，其目标是通过主动行为减少设计人员的认知负荷，并提高设计工件的质量。 例如，智能体可以帮助设计师避免忽视重要的可能性，避免停留在次优平台上。 将智能代理引入设计中会引发许多概念、技术和社会问题。 技术问题将包括用户操纵代理通过和代理编辑器，激活代理在一个共享的上下文中，代理的演示文稿，并通过规范，建设，任务表示和交互历史创建共享的上下文。 社会问题将包括人类和计算代理之间的新角色分配，即在以人为中心的支持通信，协调和协作的合作问题解决系统中嵌入代理。 这些问题将通过解释提供扩展的任务表示和问责制来解决。

IRI-9311839 Fischer, Gerhard University of Colorado-Boulder $70,000 - 12 mos. Human-Centered, Intelligent Agents Supporting Communication and Collaboration in Domain-Oriented Design Environments This is the third year funding of a three-year continuing award. There is a growing awareness among researchers and users of computer systems that systems based on a "tool" metaphor do not scale up to the information-rich, high-functionality systems of the future. The goals of this project are (1) the extension of theoretical and conceptual frameworks and (2) the design, implementation, and evaluation of prototype systems in order to accommodate the need for and to evaluate the contribution of intelligent agents for supporting communication and collaboration within domain-oriented design environments. The proposed research will explore the embedding of intelligent agents into domain-oriented design environments with the goals of reducing the cognitive load on designers through active behavior, and improving the quality of the designed artifact. Agents could, for instance, help designers avoid overlooking important possibilities and settling on suboptimal plateaus. Incorporating intelligent agents into design raises numerous conceptual, technical, and social issues. Technical problems will include user manipulation of agents through and agent editor, activation of agents in a shared context, presentation of agents, and creation of shared context through specification, construction, task representations, and interaction histories. Social issues will include the new role distributions between humans and computational agents, namely, the embedding of agents in human- centered cooperative problem solving systems supporting communication, coordination, and collaboration. These issues will be addressed by providing extended task representations and accountability through explanation.