Schedule
AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium Series
Symposium on Intelligent Environments
Stanford University
Monday March 23, 1998
9:00-10:30am Paper Session #1: Environments
"Design Decisions for Interactive Environments: Evaluating the KidsRoom"
Aaron Bobick, Stephen Intille, Jim Davis, Freedom Baird, Claudio Pinhanez, Lee Campbell, Yuri Ivanov, Arjan Schütte, and Andrew Wilson. MIT Media Lab.
"Design Principles for Intelligent Environments"
Michael Coen. MIT AI Lab.
"The Neural Network House: An Environment that Adapts to its Inhabitants"
Michael Mozer, University of Colorado.
10:30-11:00am BREAK
11:00-12:30pm Paper Session #2: Embedded Multimodal Systems
"The Digital Office: Overview"
Michael Black, François Bérard, Allan Jepson, William Newman, Eric Saund, Gudrun Socher, and Michael Taylor. Xerox PARC, Xerox Research Centre Europe, U.K., CLIPS-IMAG, France, and University of Toronto.
"Visualization Space: A Testbed for Deviceless Multimodal User Interface"
Mark Lucente, Gert-Jan Zwart, and Andrew George. IBM Research.
"Multimodal Man-Machine Interface for Mission Planning"
A. Medl, I. Marsic, M. Andre, C. Kulikowski, and J. Flanagan. Rutgers University.
12:30 2pm LUNCH
2:00-3:30pm Short Presentations * (See below)
3:30-4:00pm BREAK
4:00-5:30pm Paper Session #3: Embedded Multimodal Systems continued
Remaining Short Presentations *
"Rooms Take Note: Room Takes Notes!"
Jason Brotherton and Gregory Abowd. Georgia Institute of Technology
"Multimodal Adaptive Interfaces"
Deb Roy and Alex Pentland. MIT Media Lab
6:00-7:00pm Reception
Tuesday - March 24, 1998
9:00-10:30am Paper Session #4: Modal Subsystems
"Augmenting Intelligent Environments: Augmented Reality as an Interface to Intelligent Environments"
Blair MacIntyre and Elizabeth Mynatt. Columbia University and Xerox PARC
"Issues in the Development of an Intelligent Human-Machine Interface"
A. P. Breen. BT Applied Research and Technology, U.K.
"Learning-Based Three Dimensional Sound Localization Using a Compact Non-Coplanar Array of Microphones"
Kamen Guentchev and John Weng. Michigan State University
10:30-11:00am BREAK
11:00am-12:30pm Paper Session #5: Environments & Embedded Systems
"Context-Aware Computing: The CyberDesk Project"
Anind Dey. Georgia Institute of Technology
"MusicFX: An Arbiter of Group Preferences"
Joseph McCarthy. Andersen Consulting
"Progress of C-MAP: A Context-Aware Mobile Assistant"
Sidney Fels, Yasuyuki Sumi, Tameyuki Etani, Nicolas Simonet, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Kenji Mase. ATR Research Labs, Japan
12:30-2pm LUNCH
2:00-3:30pm Paper Session #6: Agents and Architectures
"The Knowledgeable Environment A Knowledge-Level Approach for Human-Machine Co-existing Space"
Hideaki Takeda, Nobuhide Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Matsubara, and Toyoaki Nishida. Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
"A Society of Self-Organizing Agents in the Intelligent Home"
Werner Dilger. Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
"Towards Rapidly Deployable Intelligent Environments"
Sandeep Chatterjee. MIT Lab for Computer Science
3:30-4pm BREAK
4:00-5:30pm Invited Talk:
"From the HAL 9000 to office appliances"David Stork, Chief Scientist, Ricoh California Research Center and Consulting Associate Professor and Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
6:00-8:00pm Plenary Session
Wednesday - March 25,1998
9:00-10:30am Paper Session #7: Computer Vision
"An Environment to Acknowledge the Interface between Affect and Cognition"
Christine Lisetti, David Rumelhart, and Mark Holler. Stanford University and Intel Corp.
"Towards Tracking Interaction Between People"
Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, and Alex Waibel. University of Karlsruhe, Germany and Carnegie Mellon University
"Tracking People with Integrated Stereo, Color, and Face Detection"
T. Darrell, G. Gordon, J. Woodfill, and M. Harville. Interval Research
10:30-11am BREAK
11am-12:30pm Discussion Session
Symposium Ends
*Short Presentations:
"What Would it Take to Have a Personal Assistant Who Fit into Your World?"
Beth Adelson and Mike Redmond. Rutgers University.
"A Multimodal Human-Computer Interface for the Control of a Virtual Environment"
Gregory Berry, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Thomas Huang. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"Intelligent Interface Agents for Intelligent Environments"
Scott Brown, Eugene Santos Jr., Sheila Banks, and Martin Stytz. Air Force Institute of Technology and University of Connecticut.
"Probabilistic Online Action Prediction"
Brian Davison and Haym Hirsh. Rutgers University.
"All Gadget and No Representation Makes Jack a Dull Environment"
David Franklin and Joshua Flachsbart. University of Chicago.
"When Listening Is Not Enough: Potential Uses of Vision for a Reading Tutor that Listens"
John Kominek, Gregory Aist, and Jack Mostow. Carnegie Mellon University.
"Bringing People and Places Together"
Jen Mankoff, Jonathan Somers, and Gregory Abowd. Georgia Institute of Technology.
"Dont Make that Face: a report on anthropomorphizing an interface"
Alan Wexelblat. MIT Media Lab.