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Call for Papers and Participation
CHI 2008 Workshop on USABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
5 April 2008, Florence, Italy
http://www.ai.sri.com/~spauldin/usableAI/
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
"The AI and HCI communities have often been characterized as having
opposing views of how humans and computers should interact" observes
Winograd in Shifting Viewpoints. Reconciling these views requires a
thoughtful balancing of assistance and control, of mental and system
representations, and of abstract process and contextualized workflow. This
workshop examines the gap between HCI and Artificial Intelligence (AI),
with the goal of improving usability of AI systems.
Developments in artificial intelligence hold the potential to assist humans
at work, at home, and across society, but realizing this potential depends
on designing human-usable AI systems. Most importantly, the AI system must
directly fit a real need and workflow. More concretely, the user must have
an understanding of the abilities of the system, of how to direct its
operation, and how those operations support desired tasks. The system must
have information that is formal and complete enough for its reasoning and
learning and must allow this information to be applied and altered at times
appropriate for the user. Finally, the user must be able to assimilate and
respond to the output of the system and, possibly, to its internal state or
processing.
We characterize the salient issues within the two themes of Knowledge
Capture and Representation and End User Control. Specific topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
* Semantic technologies
* Knowledge acquisition and validation techniques
* Learning systems
* Intelligent assistants
* Explanation and trust
* Emotive and affective systems
* Mixed initiative interaction
* Interaction principles for AI
* End-user knowledge representations and control methods
* Case studies of deployed systems
* Evaluation methodologies, metrics, and measures
* Increasing collaboration between AI and HCI communities
AUDIENCE
The intended audience of this workshop consists of practitioners and
researchers of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence,
knowledge capture, user-oriented design, and assistive and agent
technologies. A key objective is to foster interdisciplinary interactions
among the participants, in order to develop insight into the usability
challenges in developing AI systems, and effective means of meeting these
challenges.
WORKSHOP GOALS
The immediate and longer-term goals of the workshop, rather than to
showcase specific technologies, are:
* To understand processes and methods for the UI design of AI systems.
* To develop insight into the usability challenges in developing AI
systems, and effective means of meeting these challenges.
* To collect a set of example approaches and solutions, working towards
* understanding underlying patterns and principles for designing and
evaluating intelligent systems.
* To consider how to increase awareness and appreciation of usability
issues in the AI community.
* To gain an understanding of the most promising areas for collaboration
* between the HCI and AI communities.
This workshop follows the success of the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on
Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants, a forum that brought
together practitioners from HCI and AI fields to explore HCI issues from
the perspective of artificial assistive agents.
SUBMISSIONS
Potential participants are invited to submit a position paper, 2-4 pages in
length. Position papers should either (i) situate the participants'
interests and background among the themes of the workshop, or (ii) report
on case studies of AI systems from an HCI perspective.
Papers should conform to the CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts format
(www.chi2008.org/formatting.html). To participate, at least one author is
required to register for the workshop and one day of CHI 2008.
Submissions, in PDF format, should be sent to [log in to unmask]
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: 19 October 2007 (5:00pm PDT)
Notification: 28 November 2007
Workshop: 5 April 2008
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research
Anthony Jameson, DFKI
Aaron Spaulding, SRI International (chair)
Neil Yorke-Smith, SRI International
Jack Zaientz, Soar Technology
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