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Autonomous interface agents
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Two branches of the trend towards "agents" that are gaining currency are interface agents, software that actively assists a user in operating an interactive interface, and autonomous agents, software that takes action without user intervention and operates concurrently, either while the user is idle or taking other actions. These two branches are related, but not identical, and are often lumped together under the single term "agent". Much agent work can be classified as either being an interface agent, but not autonomous, or as an autonomous agent, but not operating directly in the interface. We show why it is important to have agents that are both interface agents and autonomous agents. We explore some design principles for such agents, and illustrate these principles with a description of Letizia, an autonomous interface agent that makes real-time suggestions for Web pages that a user might be interested in browsing. Keywords Agents, interface agents, autonomous agents, Web, browsi...
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- Lieberman, H.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
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- ACM
- Published
- 1997-03-27
- Pages
- 67-74
- OpenAlex
- W2119859154
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 26.52
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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