From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Subject: CFP:  AI, Autonomous Agents, and Interfaces, U.K., July 1991
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 17:41:35 GMT
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle



[Crossposted from news.announce.conferences.  Please respond to the
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Article: 1495 of news.announce.conferences
From: J.H.Connolly@lut.ac.uk (John H Connolly)
Subject: Workshop on AI, Autonomous User Agents and CSCW
Date: 14 Oct 91 00:01:52 GMT
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

AI, AUTONOMOUS USER AGENTS AND CSCW.

AI is playing an increasingly important role in HCI; witness, for
nexample, the sessions on this subject at HCI91, and the recent ACM
book on Intelligent Interfaces.  So far, however, in the CSCW
literature, only scant attention has been paid to the use of AI
techniques.

Consequently, the DTI CSCW-SIG (the Special Interest Group on
Computer Supported Cooperative Working supported by the U.K.
Department of Trade and Industry) is organising a one-day workshop
whose purpose is to highlight the above topic.

The scope for discussion is wide and varied, given the current
background in HCI.  It has  been said by Alan Kay that user
interfaces of the 1990s will not be tool-based as in the 1980s,
but will instead be agent-based.  How intelligent will these
agents be?  How will they be displayed?  How will they support
group working?

If you are carrying out research on these or any other questions
concerning the relationship between AI and CSCW, and would be
interested in presenting a paper at the Workshop, then please send
an abstract to John Connolly at the address given below.

The Workshop is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 30 June 1992 at
the premises of the DTI in London.  Normally, a 20 minute slot will
be allocated to each presentation, but requests for slightly longer
or shorter durations will be considered, provided that these are
received at the same time as the Abstract.  It is expected the the
papers presented at the Workshop will subsequently be published in
book form.

Abstracts will be welcome at any time up until the deadline of
Tuesday, 31 March, 1992.

The workshop is one of a series of meetings sponsored by the SIG on
different aspects of CSCW.  These are attended by delegates both from
the academic world and from industry, and provide a congenial forum
for the exchange of ideas on a fascinating interdisciplinary
subject-field of growing significance.


John Connolly.

Postal Address: Dr.J.H. Connolly,
                Department of Computer Studies,
                Loughborough University of Technology,
                Loughborough, Leics., LE11 3TU, U.K.

Janet:          J.H.Connolly@uk.ac.lut
Internet:       J.H.Connolly%lut.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Telephone:      0509-222943
Fax:            0509-211586


-- 
Bob Jacobson
Associate Director			Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds
Human Interface Technology Laboratory	cyberoid@hitl.washington.edu
Washington Technology Center, FJ-15