CSE 590 HK - Readings in Assisted Cognition

Note: 590HK will not be offered Winter 2003.  Instead, students should sign up for 590UC (590 Ubiquitous Computing).  590HK will resume in Spring 2003.

Autumn 2002

9879 CSE 590 HK SPEC TPCS COMP SCI
Friday
1130-1220
EE1 026

Welcome!  You have reached the 590 associated with the Assisted Cognition Project.  Please check us out.  We will be discussing recent work in

Each week someone will either present a recent paper from the literature, or some of their own research.

The mailing list for this course is the same as the one for general announcements about the Assisted Cognition Project, namely:

assistcog@cs.washington.edu

To sign up for this mailing list or to unsubscribe, visit:

http://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/assistcog

Access to online copies of the readings is possible if you are on a machine inside of UW or have a CSENetID. If you cannot access the directory using any of those methods please email Henry Kautz <kautz@cs.washington.edu>.

in order to be mailed a copy of the papers.  Discussion leaders should prepare a brief (15 minute) overview of the paper(s).  If we run out of time to discuss both papers, then we will discuss it the following week.

Calendar

October 11 Don Patterson
(UW CSE)
Progress in creating the Activity Compass.
October 18 Alex Mihailidis 
(guest speaker, SFU)
A recent AC-type project done at the University of Toronto Centre for Studies in Aging.  The author, Alex Mihailidis, is now a professor at Simon Fraiser University.

A. Mihailidis, G. Fernie, J. Barbenel, "The use of artificial intelligence in the design of an Intelligent Cognitive Orthosis for people with dementia", Assistive Technology 2001;13:23-39.

October 25 Discussion leader: Will Portnoy

D. Ashbrook and T. Starner, "Learning significant locations and predicting user movement with GPS".  Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seattle, 7-10 Oct, 2002.

November 1 Discussion leader: Lin Liao

N. Oliver, E. Horvitz, and A. Garg. Layered Representations for Recognizing Office Activity, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2002), Pittsburgh, PA, pp.3-8.

November 8   No class!  Our work is being presented at the Rosalyn Carter Center Symposium on Alzheimer's Care and at the Gerontechnology conference.
November 15 Discussion leader: Kate Deibel

 

E. Horvitz, J. Breese, D. Heckerman, D. Hovel, and K. Rommelse. The Lumiere Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the Goals and Needs of Software Users. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, July 1998.
November 22 Discussion leader: Julie Goldberg and Miryung Kim Fernando Diaz, "Using wearable computers to construct semantic representations of physical space."  Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seattle, 7-10 Oct, 2002.
November 29   No class, Thanksgiving break.
December 6 Discussion leader: Nan Li Computer Model of Prefrontal Cortex Function. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 769: Structure and Function of Human Prefrontal Cortex, Levinson, R. New York, New York, 1995. Download the full article (postscript format).

Future Readings

S. Narayanan (1999). Reasoning About Actions in Narrative Understanding. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-99, Stockholm.

Distributed Monitoring of Hybrid Systems: A model-directed approach. Feng Zhao, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Horst Haussecker, James Reich, Patrick Cheung, and Claudia Picardi. In Proc. of IJCAI-2001.