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WEEK #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction to "the context problem"
2Context for software agentsBrown, 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).
3Designing User Interfaces for Just-In-Time InformationRhodes, 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 Bulding a Contextually Aware Associative Memory (unpublished draft).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.
4Context for learning by exampleLieberman, Henry. Integrating user interface agents with conventional applications.
 
Potter, Richard. Just-in-Time Programming.
5Lenat, Doug. The Dimensions of Context-Space.
6Information visualizationTufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Shneiderman, Ben. Information Visualization.

Cooper, Muriel. Computers and Design.
7The role of background knowledge as context

Guha and Doug Lenat. Cyc.

Lehnert, Wendy. Computers and Car Bombs.

Brooks, Rod. Intelligence without Representation.

8Systems that adapt to contextSelker, Ted. COACH: A Teaching Agent That Learns.

Rich, Elaine. Stereotypes and User Modeling.
9Philosophical and mathematical positions on contextBarwise, Jon, and John Perry. Situations and Attitudes.

Suchman, Lucy. Situated Systems.

Nardi, Bonnie. Context and Consciousness.
10Machine Learning and formal approachesMitchell, Tom,and Langley, Pat. Machine Learning.
 
Neville-Manning, Craig, and David Maulsby. Sequitur.

McCarthy, John. Circumscription.
11Sensing context from the environment
12Psychological and social perspectives on contextNass, Cliff, and Byron Reeves. The Media Equation.
 
Bates, Joseph. The Role of Emotion in Believable Agents.

Laurel, Brenda. Metaphors with Character.
13Final Project Reports
14Final Project Reports
 


 



 








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