Week 6 Readings
Reviews are due by noon May 1. (However, please read the Chen and
Dumais paper before class Monday April 30, since Sue will be visiting that
day.) Responses are due before class on Wednesday May 2. We're using
e-post this week.
- H. Chen and S. T. Dumais, "Bringing order to the web: Automatically
categorizing search results", Proceedings of CHI 2000, Human Factors in
Computing Systems, pp. 145-152. Available from the home page of Sue Dumais (follow the
link).
Submit
Review & Response to Chen and Dumais
- "Agents
that Reduce Work and Information Overload," by Pattie Maies,
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No.7, pp. 31-40, July 1994.
html;
pdf.
Submit
Review & Response to Maes
-
Principles
of Mixed-Initiative User Interfaces by Eric Horvitz, CHI 99. The
above link is to a page at Microsoft Research with the abstract, full text of
the paper, and links to related work.
Submit
Review & Response to Horvitz
Recommended talk
Programming by demonstration: a machine
learning approach
This is Tessa Lau's PhD defense, May 9, 3:30pm, Sieg 322. See Tessa's Programming
By Demonstration web site for an overview and links.
Optional papers (no review necessary)
Additional Papers on Agents
- Direct Manipulation vs. Interface
Agents by Ben Shneiderman and Pattie Maes, Interactions,
Nov 1997.
Also see Scientific American Profile
Humans
Unite!, March 1999.
- Background for the Horvitz paper above:
The
Lumiere Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the Goals and
Needs of Software Users by E. Horvitz, J. Breese, D. Heckerman,
D. Hovel, and K. Rommelse. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference
on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, July 1998. The above
link is to a page Microsoft Research with the abstract, full text
of the paper, and links to related work.
-
COLLAGEN: A
Collaboration Manager for Software Interface Agents, by Charles Rich
and Candace L. Sidner, tech report TR97-21a, March 1998, Mitsubishi
Electric Research Laboratory, also in User Modeling and User-Adapted
Interaction, Special Issue on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative
Interaction. (There is a general description of the COLLAGEN project
at COLLAGEN: When Agents
Collaborate with People.)
- For other recent papers on intelligent user interfaces, see the
Intelligent User Interfaces 2000 Proceedings. A couple of papers in
that conference that interested me in particular are Representation
of Electronic Mail Filtering Profiles: A User Study, by Michael
Pazzani; and Context-Aware
Office Assistant, by Hao Yan and Ted Selker. There is a more recent
IUI 2001 Conference, but I couldn't find
the papers online to link here.
Additional Papers on Search
- S. T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, and Hao Chen, "Optimizing Search by
Showing Results in Context", CHI 2001, pp 277-283. (The ACM Digital
Library is broken right now, so I don't have an online version of this
paper to include. I'll link it in when the library is back.)
- "The scent of a site: a system for analyzing and predicting
information scent, usage, and usability of a Web site", by Ed H. Chi,
Peter Pirolli and James Pitkow, CHI 2000, pages 161 - 168. There is
also an entire session (3 papers) in CHI 2001 on this topic.
Additional Papers on Information Overload
There is of course a huge amount of material on information overload and
I should probably include several pages of additional links.
Schedule