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              The Reality Of Intelligent Interface Technology

   A one day workshop organised jointly by the Intelligent Interfaces
     Special Interest Group (IISIG) and the British HCI group.

                        Tuesday 25th March 1997
                      Napier University, Edinburgh
                          10.30 a.m. - 16.30 p.m.

	        ***All abstracts are now available from:***
             http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~dbenyon/workshop.htm


Intelligent Interface Technology (IIT) includes any application of
knowledge-based, or artificial intelligence techniques to interface
development. In this sense it encompasses other terms such as 'adaptive
system', 'intelligent (user) interface' or 'adaptive interface' as well
as including agent-based interaction. The aim of this workshop is to
examine the realities of this technology.

Many claims are now being made by software developers that their systems
use agents, or have an intelligent user interface. However, often these
claims seem excessive: a database query can be described as if it were
an agent (users simply state what they want and the query 'agent'
searches the database and finds it!), a spell-checker can be described
as behaving intelligently in that it makes suggestions. Many of the best
state-of-the art agents employ very simple algorithms in order to make
recommendations of music or web sites that people might like. To what
extent are such 'wizards' intelligent?

Such applications seem a long way from the theoretical view of
intelligent interface technology and from the visions of
'indirect management instead of direct manipulation'. The purpose of
this workshop is to explore the realities of intelligent interface
technology - both at the present time and for the next few years.


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                              Programme

10.30    Coffee and Registration

11.00    Introduction to the workshop
         David Benyon, Napier University

11.05    Intelligent Interface Technology: From Theory to Reality?
         Michael McTear, University of Ulster

11.30    Facilitating a fully adaptive, intelligent interface.
         Anthony Lennard and Alan Parkes, Lancaster University

11.55    HAIKU : An Dynamic, Self Organising, Interface for Data Mining.
         Andy Pryke, Birmingham University

12.20    Discussion

12.45    Lunch

14.00    Computer Aided Design and the web:
         the role of the intelligent interface.
         John Lee, Edinburgh University

14.25    A machine learning approach for WWW adaptive interfaces.
         Stefania Errore, CORINTO, Italy

14.50    The challenge to design intelligent consumer and domestic
         product interfaces.
         John Bonner, Teeside University

15.15    Tea

15.35    Steps to take before Intelligent User Interfaces become real.
         Kristina Hook, SICS, Sweden

16.00    Discussion

16.30    Close


                 British HCI Group / IISIG Joint Meeting

             THE REALITY OF INTELLIGENT INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY

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                         Tuesday 25th March 1997
                      Napier University, Edinburgh
                          10.30 am  -  16.30 pm


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