In manufacturing, advanced robotic technology has opened up the possibility of integrating
highly autonomous mobile robots into human teams. However, with this capability comes the …

“An extraordinarily good synthesis from an amazing range of philosophical, legal, and
technological sources... the book will appeal to legal academics and students, lawyers …

A conversational information retrieval (CIR) system is an information retrieval (IR) system
with a conversational interface, which allows users to interact with the system to seek …

Advancements in robotic technology are making it increasingly possible to integrate robots
into the human workspace in order to improve productivity and decrease worker strain …

As adaptive agents become more complex and take increasing autonomy in their user's
lives, it becomes more important for users to trust and understand these agents. Little work …

We describe an intelligent personal assistant that has been developed to aid a busy
knowledge worker in managing time commitments and performing tasks. The design of the …

Personal agent software is now in daily use in personal devices and in some organizational
settings. While many advocate an agent sociality design paradigm that incorporates human …

Although there is existing work on learning user preferences in various systems, the outputs
of such systems tend to be confusing to users. Studies of users interacting with such systems …

While there is ample evidence that Multi-agent Systems and Technologies (MAS&T) are
vigorous as a research area, it is unclear what practical application impact this research …

Computers have become affordable, small, omnipresent and are often connected to the
Internet. However, despite the availability of such rich environments, user interfaces have …