| Week # | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to "the context problem" | |
| 2 | Context for software agents |
Brown, P. J., J. D. Bovey, and X. Chen. "Context-aware applications: from the laboratory to the marketplace." IEEE Personal Communications, 4(5) (October 1997). Lieberman, Henry, and David Maulsby. "Software That Just Keeps Getting Better." IBM Systems Journal, Volume 35, Nos. 3 & 4 (1996). |
| 3 | Designing User Interfaces for Just-In-Time Information |
Rhodes, Bradley. Bulding a Contextually Aware Associative Memory (unpublished draft). Wickens, CD. "Engineering Psychology and Human Performance." In Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, Scott Foesman Little Brown, 1992, 74-115 (only skim 74-88). Norman, Don. "How might we interact with agents?" In Software Agents. Edited by J. Bradshaw. AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1997. |
| 4 | Context for learning by example |
Lieberman, Henry. Integrating user interface agents with conventional applications. Potter, Richard. Just-in-Time Programming. |
| 5 | Lenat, Doug. The Dimensions of Context-Space. | |
| 6 | Information visualization |
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Shneiderman, Ben. Information Visualization. Cooper, Muriel. Computers and Design. |
| 7 | The role of background knowledge as context | Guha and Doug Lenat. Cyc.
Lehnert, Wendy. Computers and Car Bombs. Brooks, Rod. Intelligence without Representation. |
| 8 | Systems that adapt to context |
Selker, Ted. COACH: A Teaching Agent That Learns. Rich, Elaine. Stereotypes and User Modeling. |
| 9 | Philosophical and mathematical positions on context |
Barwise, Jon, and John Perry. Situations and Attitudes. Suchman, Lucy. Situated Systems. Nardi, Bonnie. Context and Consciousness. |
| 10 | Machine Learning and formal approaches |
Mitchell, Tom,and Langley, Pat. Machine Learning. Neville-Manning, Craig, and David Maulsby. Sequitur. McCarthy, John. Circumscription. |
| 11 | Sensing context from the environment | |
| 12 | Psychological and social perspectives on context |
Nass, Cliff, and Byron Reeves. The Media Equation. Bates, Joseph. The Role of Emotion in Believable Agents. Laurel, Brenda. Metaphors with Character. |
| 13 | Final Project Reports | |
| 14 | Final Project Reports |