Interactive Knowledge Capture

We have worked on a variety of topics and projects in this area. You can see a recent slide overview of all of our research on interactive knowledge capture that I prepared for an invited talk.

Our current focus is on knowledge collection from volunteers and on learning procedural knowledge from tutorial instruction.

Some of the topics and projects that we have worked on over the years include:

• Knowledge acquisition: knowledge collection from volunteers, knowledge acquisition dialogues, learning from being told, learning from demonstration and from examples. Projects in this area include TellMe, Shortipedia, Workflow Design, Learner, CAT, KANAL, Maven, SLICK, and EXPECT.
• Interactive intelligent systems: user-centered decision aids, assistance with to-do lists, mixed-initiative tools, knowledge-based systems. Projects include Beamer, Wings, CAT, Temple, and EXPECT.
• Mixed-Initiative Planning: plan evaluation and critiquing, human-in-the-loop planning, plan ontologies and representations, planning with incomplete information. Projects include CAT, KANAL, EXPECT, PLANET, INSPECT, and PRODIGY.
• Distributed problem solving: agent communication, agentizing people, agent environments to support human organizations, workflow management for distributed problem solving, intelligent middleware for Grid computing. Projects include Beamer, Electric Elves, PHOSPHORUS, ROSETTA, Pegasus, Cognitive Grids, and SCEC-CME.