Seminar Intelligent user interfaces

'It's time for the next generation of user interfaces. People want to do increasingly interesting and complex things with information technologies, but our interfaces need new ways of interacting with people. We can't get to the next generation of user interfaces simply by adding more menus and icons to our already overcrowded screens. Sooner or later, our interfaces need to understand more about what people are doing with them, become self-reflective, and communicate using natural modalities such as speech and gesture.'

In this seminar we will study the principles behind virtual coaching, a sophisticated example of a so called cooperative assistant. We will in particular focus on calming technology, i.e. technology that uses behavior changing strategies to reduce people's stress. Among others, the following topics will be studied in this seminar: embodied and social agents, virtual assistance, behavior changing strategies, persuasive technology and calming technology.

Goals:

• Study of the state of the art in automatic coaching principles.
• Development and presentation of a conceptual model of a virtual coaching machine.

• Attendance of meetings is obligatory
• Individual: Oral presentations of various topics in the area of virtual coaching.
• Group: Group report that describes the individual contributions and the design process of the IUI.