From: csiui2007@gmail.com   
      
   ~~~~~   Workshop on Common Sense and Intelligent User Interfaces ~~~~~   
      
   @ IUI 2007   
   January 28, 2007   
   Honolulu, Hawaii   
      
   ~~~~~~~~~~~  Paper Submission Deadline November 13th ~~~~~~~~~   
      
   Ideally, computer interfaces will be able to interact with users at a   
   higher level by understanding our goals, our problems, and the social   
   procedures by which we live. In order for these intelligent computer   
   interfaces to see the world from the perspective of their users, they   
   must have access to a wealth of information about the world that human   
   users take for granted. This information, which forms the basis of   
   goal-directed computer interactions, is common sense knowledge.   
      
   Common sense knowledge is non-expert and possessed by every person.   
   Thus, volunteers make up a significant source of common sense knowledge   
   being collected today, and intelligent interfaces help these   
   contributors create robust and complete common sense databases. An   
   interactive and intelligent environment can guide a contributor to add   
   the information that would be most useful to the system and, with good   
   design, can make the knowledge entry experience more rewarding for the   
   contributor.   
      
   In turn, this collected common sense knowledge helps enable a wide   
   variety of interfaces to function better. We're interested in exploring   
   both sides of this symbiotic relationship. How can common sense enable   
   computers interfaces to better understand their human users? How can   
   interfaces enable the elicitation of common sense knowledge?   
      
   Topics include, but are not limited to:   
      
   Knowledge engineering and gathering of common sense knowledge:   
      
       * Interfaces for volunteers to contribute common sense knowledge   
       * Interfaces for verification and consistency-checking of common   
   sense knowledge   
       * Knowledge elicitation   
       * Mining of common sense knowledge from text, and from observation   
   of user actions   
      
   Adaptation of interfaces using common sense knowledge:   
      
       * Understanding context, affect, and other kinds of implicit   
   knowledge using common sense knowledge   
       * Using common sense knowledge for understanding user intentions,   
   preferences, goals and plans   
       * Using common sense knowledge to predict user actions and   
   providing intelligent defaults   
       * Common sense for debugging, "sanity checking", and dealing with   
   unusual situations   
       * Diversity of common sense knowledge across different languages   
   and cultures   
      
   For more information please see:   
   http://eurydice.cs.brandeis.edu/csiui/   
      
   - Catherine Havasi and Henry Lieberman   
      
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