Calendar

Week #TopicsReadings
1Introduction to "the context problem" 
2Context for software agents

Brown, P. J., J. D. Bovey, and X. Chen. "Context-aware applications: from the laboratory to the marketplace." IEEE Personal Communications, 4(5) (October 1997).

Lieberman, Henry, and David Maulsby. "Software That Just Keeps Getting Better." IBM Systems Journal, Volume 35, Nos. 3 & 4 (1996).

3Designing User Interfaces for Just-In-Time Information

Rhodes, Bradley. Bulding a Contextually Aware Associative Memory (unpublished draft).

Wickens, CD. "Engineering Psychology and Human Performance." In Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, Scott Foesman Little Brown, 1992, 74-115 (only skim 74-88).

Norman, Don. "How might we interact with agents?" In Software Agents. Edited by J. Bradshaw. AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1997.

4Context for learning by example

Lieberman, Henry. Integrating user interface agents with conventional applications.

Potter, Richard. Just-in-Time Programming.

5 Lenat, Doug. The Dimensions of Context-Space.
6Information visualization

Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Shneiderman, Ben. Information Visualization.

Cooper, Muriel. Computers and Design.

7The role of background knowledge as contextGuha and Doug Lenat. Cyc.

 

Lehnert, Wendy. Computers and Car Bombs.

Brooks, Rod. Intelligence without Representation.

8Systems that adapt to context

Selker, Ted. COACH: A Teaching Agent That Learns.

Rich, Elaine. Stereotypes and User Modeling.

9Philosophical and mathematical positions on context

Barwise, Jon, and John Perry. Situations and Attitudes.

Suchman, Lucy. Situated Systems.

Nardi, Bonnie. Context and Consciousness.

10Machine Learning and formal approaches

Mitchell, Tom,and Langley, Pat. Machine Learning.

Neville-Manning, Craig, and David Maulsby. Sequitur.

McCarthy, John. Circumscription.

11Sensing context from the environment 
12Psychological and social perspectives on context

Nass, Cliff, and Byron Reeves. The Media Equation.

Bates, Joseph. The Role of Emotion in Believable Agents.

Laurel, Brenda. Metaphors with Character.

13Final Project Reports 
14Final Project Reports