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AgentSalon: Facilitating Face-to-Face Knowledge Exchange through Conversations Among Personal Agents (2001)
| Venue: | Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001 |
| Citations: | 18 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sumi01agentsalon:facilitating,
author = {Yasuyuki Sumi and Kenji Mase},
title = {AgentSalon: Facilitating Face-to-Face Knowledge Exchange through Conversations Among Personal Agents},
booktitle = {Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001},
year = {2001},
pages = {393},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents a system called AgentSalon, which facilitates face-to-face knowledge exchange and discussion by people having shared interests, in museums, schools, o#ces, academic conferences, etc. This system was designed as a sub-system of our ongoing project to construct a personal agent system for tour guidance and knowledge sharing among users. AgentSalon has a big screen for two to five users. The screen shows conversations among animated agents belonging to the users. The personal agent usually runs on our mobile guidance system, called PalmGuide, and guides its user according to his/her individual interests and touring records. When users connect their PalmGuides with AgentSalon by infrared, their personal agents with their personal information migrate to AgentSalon and engage in automated conversation. Contents of the conversation include opinion exchange about tour experiences, mutual recommendations of exhibits on behalf of the users, etc. By observing a chat of the agents, users can e#ectively obtain appropriate topics: that is, tempts them to follow the chat. This paper shows the first prototype of AgentSalon provided to participants in an academic conference.
Keyphrases
personal agent face-to-face knowledge exchange academic conference knowledge sharing big screen appropriate topic touring record mobile guidance system individual interest personal information migrate mutual recommendation automated conversation tour guidance animated agent first prototype opinion exchange personal agent system tour experience
