Authors: Barthelmess, P.¹; Ellis, C.²

Source: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Volume 25, Number 2, September 2005 , pp. 207-240(34)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

This paper introduces the Neem Platform, a generic research test bed for the development of a novel class of adaptive intelligent collaborative applications. These applications provide support for groups of people working together by facilitating their communication and by reacting adaptively to the perceived contexts of an ongoing interaction. Applications in Neem explore the multimodal context of mostly human-to-human communication, by “overhearing” conversations, monitoring user actions and reacting to perceived opportunities for augmentation via intelligent system interventions.

The Neem Platform is designed to facilitate the integration of functionality for capture and reification of user communicative actions over a variety of modalities (e.g. speech, text, gestures), as well as facilitate analysis and reasoning based on this reified context. The platform promotes an exploratory and evolutionary style of development by affording rapid development of components, enactment of human-controlled real-time (Wizard of Oz) experiments, and remote collection of data for off-line analysis of interactions.

This paper contributes the presentation of a novel coordination mechanism and shows how this underlying mechanism can be used to implement systems that support intelligent reaction to multimodal group interactions.

Keywords: intelligent user interfaces; group collaboration; perceptual and multimodal systems

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10844-005-0862-y

Affiliations: 1: Center for Human-Computer Communication, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, OR, 97006, USA, Email: paulo@cse.ogi.edu 2: Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 430, Boulder, CO, 80309-0430, USA, Email: skip@colorado.edu

Publication date: 2005-09-01

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