Title :
Plan recognition for intelligent interfaces
Author :
Goodman, Bradley A. ; Litman, Diane J.
Author_Institution :
BBN Syst. & Technol. Corp., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A domain-independent assessment of plan recognition, with respect to its use in enhancing user interfaces, is presented. Plan recognition is a research area in automatic reasoning and is a promising approach to engineering better interfaces. Plan recognition makes interfaces more intelligent and interactive by providing an intelligent assistant that supports such tasks as advice generation, task completion, context-sensitive responses and error detection and recovery. How such tasks in turn provide representation and reasoning constraints that must be satisfied in order for the plan recognizer to efficiently support them is described. It is also shown how interfaces are fundamentally limited by current plan and recognition approaches. These limitations can be used to direct current research towards creating a new generation of plan-recognition systems
Keywords :
inference mechanisms; interactive systems; knowledge representation; user interfaces; advice generation; automatic reasoning; context-sensitive responses; domain-independent assessment; error detection; intelligent assistant; intelligent interfaces; plan recognition; plan recognizer; reasoning constraints; representation; research area; task completion; user interfaces; Algorithm design and analysis; Artificial intelligence; Chemical engineering; Computer errors; Computer interfaces; Concrete; Intelligent systems; Natural languages; Process design; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Intelligence Applications, 1990., Sixth Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santa Barbara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2032-3
DOI :
10.1109/CAIA.1990.89203
