Of possible interest..
Koala
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/koala.index.html
announcement of upcoming talk @stanford (should be webcast)...
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Subject: PCD 12/8/06 Tessa Lau and Allen Cypher, IBM Almaden, Koala:
End user programming on the Web
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:09:55 -0800
From: Terry Winograd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN, 12:30-2:00pm PDT (UTC 19:30)
Video: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp CS547
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Friday, December 8, 2006
*Tessa Lau *and *Allen Cypher*, IBM Almaden
http://tlau.org/
http://www.acypher.com/
*Koala: End user programming on the Web
*We have developed a system called Koala that enables users to record
their actions in a web browser, play them back to automate those
actions, and publish them on a wiki to share with a community. Within a
corporation or other community, Koala acts as a "wikipedia of how-to
knowledge". For instance, when one person figures out how to fill in all
of the corporate purchasing codes and customer numbers to purchase a
flat panel display, that person's colleagues can play back the recorded
actions to purchase a monitor themselves.
Koala records actions as commands in plain English, using the textual
labels that appear on a web page. When it interprets written commands in
order to perform them, it loosely matches the words in the command with
the words on the web page. As a result, Koala's language is largely
understandable by both humans and Koala: People can freely write and
edit commands without worrying about a rigid syntax, and instructions
written for a person are often executable by Koala.
We will demonstrate the program, show how it combines programming by
demonstration with social networks, describe various domains where we
hope to apply Koala, and discuss our plans for development and research.
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*Tessa Lau* is a Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of
Washington in 2001. Her research goal is to give people tools to improve
their productivity, enhance their creativity, and make them more
effective. She is interested in information management, particularly
personal information, and how people interact with and customize their
working environment. She has done significant work in the area of
programming by demonstration, giving end users the ability to automate
repetitive tasks simply by showing the system how to perform the task a
few times. More generally, she is interested in finding patterns in
human behavior and human-centric information and building tools that
exploit these patterns to enable people to do more with less work.
*Allen Cypher* is a Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research
Center. His main research interests are programming by demonstration and
end-user programming -- giving all computer users capabilities that have
traditionally belonged to programmers. Allen is a co-inventor of
Stagecast Creator -- a program that enables children to create their own
games and simulations and publish them on the Web. He is the editor of
_Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration_. He created the Eager
program, which was one of the first intelligent agents. Eager constantly
monitored a user's actions on the computer, and when it detected a
repetitive activity, it would write a program to perform that activity
automatically. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton
University in 1975, a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in
1980, and spent several years as a post-doc in cognitive science at the
University of California, San Diego.
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This is the last week of Autumn Quarter. The talks will begin again on
January 12 and the listing will be available in a week or so on
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/
Best wishes to all of you for the holidays. --t
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