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Seminar anouncement

AI, Autonomous User Agents and CSCW
10.00 a.m., Tuesday, 30 June, 1992

Department of Trade & Industry
Kingsgate House
66-74 Victoria Street 
London SW1

AI is playing an increasingly important role in HCI; witness, for example, the sessions on this subject at HCI'91, and the recent ACM book on Intelligent Interfaces.  So far, however, in the CSCW literature, only scant attention has been paid to the use o>f AI techniques.

Consequently, the CSCW-SIG (the Special Interest Group on Computer Supported Cooperative Working supported by the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry) is organising a one-day workshop whose purpose is to highlight the above topic.  

The scope for discussion is wide and varied, given the current background in HCI.  It has  been said by Alan Kay that user interfaces of the 1990s will not be tool-based as in the 1980s, but will instead be agent-based.  How intelligent will these agents >be?  How will they be displayed?  How will they support group working?

If you are interested in these or other questions concerning the relationship between AI and CSCW, you are likely to enjoy this workshop. Presentations will be given on a variety of germane topics, and time will also be allocated for general discussion.

Note:  For security reasons the DTI stipulates that attendance is by prior registration only. Please complete and return a registration form or contact:

Patrick Holligan
LUTCHI Research Centre
Dept of Computer Studies
Loughborough University of Technology
Loughborough, LE11 3TU, Leicestershire

Tel. (0509) 222 694
Fax: (0509) 610 815
E-mail: P.J.Holligan@lut.ac.uk


AI, Autonomous User Agents and CSCW
10.00 a.m., Tuesday, 30 June, 1992

P R O G R A M M E
Morning

10.00	Arrival and coffee

10.20	Chairpersons' Introduction
     	Ernest Edmonds and John Connolly (Loughborough 	University of Technology)

10.25	AI and CSCW in International Contexts
	John H. Connolly (Loughborough University of 	Technology)

10.45	Agency within CSCW: Towards the Development of 	Active Cooperative Working  Environments
      	G.M.P. O'Hare, P.Donga, L.A. Macauley and S. Viller 	(UMIST)

11.05	Toward a Cooperative Software Agent
     	Michael Smyth Loughborough University of 	Technology)

11.25 	Discussion

11.35 	Domain Knowledge Agents for Information Retrieval
	Douglas R. McGregor, Ian A. MacLeod and Craig R. 	Renfrew (University of Strathclyde)

11.55	Autonomous Agents in the Support of Cooperative 	Authorship
	Paul E.S. Dunne and Geof Staniford (University of 	Liverpool)

12.15	On the Definition and Desirability of Autonomous 	User Agents
	David Jennings (Employment Department, Sheffield)

12.35 	Discussion

12.45	Lunch

Afternoon

14.00	A Model for Supporting Interacting Knowledge 	Sources
	John G. Gammack and Robert A. Stephens (Bristol 	Polytechnic)

14.20	A Functional Architecture of Interacting Systems
     	David Benyon (Open University)

14.40	Environments for Cooperating Agents: Designing the 	Interface as Medium
     	Alan Dix, Janet Finlay and Jonathan Hassell 	(University of York)

15.00 	Discussion

15.10 	Tea

15.25 	Framework for Negotiation
	Rachel Jones and Ernest Edmonds (Loughborough 	University of Technology)

15.45 	Supporting Human Experts' Cooperative Work: 	Towards a Framework of Organisational Context 	Knowledge for Cooperative Information Systems
      	Stefan Kirn (Fern Universitaet Hagen)

16.05 	Discussion

16.15 	Close


T h e  C S C W  -  S I G
The CSCW-SIG was formed by the UK Human Interface (HI) and Communications and Distributed Systems (CDS) Clubs in 1990 as a special interest group supported by, but separate from the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry. Membership is open to anyone interested i>n CSCW. The current membership is several hundred people, divided equally between commerce/industry and academia.  Anyone wishing to join the SIG or be on its mailing list should contact:  S.A.Scrivener@ lut.ac.uk

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F U T U R E   E V E N T S
The CSCW-SIG has opted for variety in its programme of meetings so as to air as many different topics as possible and to emphasise the multi-disciplinary nature of CSCW.  The SIG has negotiated a CSCW book series and it is the intention that one source of> material for this series will come from the meetings programme. The general editor is Dr Dan Diaper, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, who may be contacted in this connection:
	 D.Diaper@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
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C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
The CSCW-SIG is committed to a policy of open membership and the representation of the widest possible range of members' views on CSCW.  Proposals for CSCW meeting topics are welcome. Anyone interested in speaking at any of the SIG's meetings should conta>ct the organisers direct or Colston Sanger of GID tel. 0428 654821 or (e-mail):  
	colston @ gid.co.uk
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CSCW-SIG MEETING

REGISTRATION FORM

AI, Autonomous User Agents and CSCW

10.00 a.m., Tuesday, 30 June, 1992

Department of Trade & Industry
Kingsgate House
66-74 Victoria Street 
London SW1

I wish to attend the CSCW-SIG seminar on 'AI, Autonomous User Agents and CSCW' and enclose my cheque for  35 to cover registration and refreshments.  Please make cheques payable to the LUTCHI Research Centre.  (Invoices and/or receipts can be provided on >request.) A 50% discount is available for bona fide research students.

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For security reasons the DTI stipulates that attendance is by prior registration only.  Complete and return this form together with your remittance by Wednesday, 24 June 1992 to:

Patrick Holligan, LUTCHI Research Centre
Department of Computer Studies
Loughborough University of Technology
Loughborough LE11 3TU
    Tel.  direct:  (0509) 222 694
Fax:  (0509) 610 815
E-mail:  P.J.Holligan@lut.ac.uk

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