Creating a Considerate World

Опубликовано 17 августа 2016, 21:28

No longer will the sensors we develop simply be part of a control system. We are now poised to create a world where objects with computers in them can recognize our looks, feelings, and actions to simplify how we work with them. New systems will have to build social awareness into their feedback and attempts to actuate and effect things in the world. Context aware systems can recognize human intentions, making capabilities available as needed and reducing interruptions and disruption when they arenΓÇÖt. Collaborations between people and computers, as collaborations between people: systems will be improved with socially appropriate responses. This talk will present examples in which our intentions can be understood and acted on by computers. The work reaches across domains to demonstrate that human intentions can be recognized and respected in many complex natural scenarios. My demonstrations, ranging from beds to email systems, will show how systems can become more socially appropriate as we work to improve our lives without complicating them further. CarCOACH for example succeeds when working not to bother you when you are negotiating a complex maneuver or have heard the same comment many times. Disruption Manager as another example automatically mediating communication based on a cognitive model can improve human performance. With such new tools, people can begin to create a world where systems recognize our needs though our actions to reduce unnecessary complexity in how we work.