Michael H. Coen

A Prototype Intelligent Environment

This paper presents our laboratorys Intelligent Room, an experimental environment for bringing computation into the realm of ordinary, everyday activity and enabling natural human-computer interaction. We first present the notion of an Intelligent Environment and describe how it differs from other paradigms in human-computer interaction. We then discuss our Intelligent Rooms hardware and software components and one of the rooms current applications. We also outline criteria for designing and evaluating highly interactive spaces.

A Context Sensitive Natural Language Modality for an Intelligent Room

This paper describes the design and implementation of a natural language interface to a highly interactive space known as the Intelligent Room.

The AAAI Spring Symposia

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford Universitys Department of Computer Science, held the 1998 Spring Symposium Series on 23 to 25 March at Stanford University. The topics of the eight symposia were (1) Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, (2) Integrating Robotic Research: Taking the Next Leap, (3) Intelligent Environments, (4) Intelligent Text Summarization, (5) Interactive and Mixed-Initiative Decision-Theoretic Systems, (6) Multimodal Reasoning, (7) Prospects for a Common-Sense Theory of Causation, and (8) Satisficing Models.