Already, agents and wizards help users automate tasks such as. The software agents group of the mit media laboratory investigates computer systems to which one can delegate tasks. At the mit media labs software agents group, we focus on the sense of agent as being a helpful assistant in the user interface, like a travel agent or real estate agent but hopefully, not like the microsoft paper clip. This project aims to develop an intelligent personalfinance advisory agent that bridges the gap between the novice user and the expert model of the finance. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside. Wherehoo is an infrastructure element of the media labs impulse project, primarily for use by personal software agents that explore and interact with agents representing places in the physical world. Letizia is a user interface agent that assists a user browsing the world wide web by learning the users interests and scouting ahead from the users current.
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Storied navigation what am i gonna wear your memory, connected. How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the users projects software agents mit media lab search. The software agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rather than simply as a tool. We build prototype agent systems in a wide variety of domains, including. Agent software is a topic of growing interest to users and developers in the computer industry. While not necessarily as intelligent as a human agent, agent software can learn from interaction with the user, and proactively anticipate the users needs. The term software agents is used differently in different communities. Over the past two years, the media laboratory at the massachusetts institute of. This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. Projects i am currently the director of the interactive experience group.
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