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Du Ping:
"Agent"
Ever since
the introduction of the idea of agents, there have been a excessive number of
proposals for human oriented agent systems and a scarcity of actual working
examples that actually would be useful. In addition the proposed use of eye
tracking and other non verbal interaction could remove a major limitation
to many systems -- that is the keyboard command nature of many systems.
The
proposal has the potential for use in many areas of application such as for
financial analysts, intelligence analysts; people shopping on the internet;
students etc. There is interesting research in the use of brain wave
signals that could also be interesting input. I like the potential that
this proposal has for creating new ideas of how to interact with computer
systems and displays -- for example the use of TV sets and eye movement and
buying. Most interesting potential.
This
project was chosen because of the strong interest in agents expressed in
the project introduction.
Matsumura:"
Semantic web services "
The
momentum that semantic webs have received in the past year has been
impressive. I have acted as an advisor to two companies that have just
received significant venture funding. The proposal to focus on end user
initiated services gives an interesting alternative to the classic approach
and could yield not only a useful set of ideas and user results but also
the potential of starting a major new direction.
I believe
it is a valid comment on the part of the proposer that currently there is
an excessive amount of knowledge required to produce such services for
users. If their claim that their approach will dramatically cut down on
such specialized knowledge then it may indeed lead to an explosion of the
use of such systems like the PC did to the use of computers. This is an
example of a very interesting idea which could run into problems due to its
size and large number of pieces and an aggressive schedule. I think my
experience in dealing with such projects will help define what can be done
to structure the system to gave the maximum operational features and the
maximum extendibility in the allocated time.
This effort
was chosen because of the strong impact of semantic webs on distributed
data and applications in the future.
Sakakibara:"
uPackage: ubiquitous services with daily objects "
This was a
very very interesting proposal that combined several areas of technology
that I have much experience with. The scope of the project entails some
interesting problems in user interface design as well as interesting issues
in networking technology. It is a very ambitious effort and offers
opportunities to me, and thus to the proposers, in system design of
interfaces and extensible software.
The things
that make this a very interesting proposal is the notion of the interaction
of labeled real objects with the software that the proposers will build.
The ability to locate where various objects are in space and to direct
actions determined by the software to affect the objects is very
interesting. The possibilities of extending the ideas to service the public
in their homes via extended communications interests me. For example --
where are my keys? Who lifted the painting? Who looked at my diary? Could
in principle be a natural extension of these ideas. Proper software
architecture will be critical to the extendibility of the effort.
I chose
this effort due to the ability proposed to create natural interactions of
people and objects moderated by computers and networks.
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