Announcements
- Feb 25: Assignment 2 is posted. As discussed in class, Assignment 2 is optional. Due date is March 10.
- Jan 25: Assignment 1 is posted. Due date is Feb 8.
- Jan 12: Due to some issues with the web forms on nTreePoint, please
e-mail me your summaries for Jan 13th.
- Jan 6: The class will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays at 2:30-4:00pm. Please note that there is a reading for Jan 11, but you are not required to submit questions or a summary.
- There will be an organizational meeting January 6th at 11:30am in E2-461
Instructor
Andrea Bunt (bunt at cs.umanitoba.ca)
Office: EITC E2 407
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm or by appointment
Overview
Intelligent interactive systems embed AI techniques to tailor their human-computer interactions to individual user needs. Intelligent interactive systems have been constructed for numerous purposes, such assisting with Web searches, recommending items such as books or movies, or providing application-specific guidance. Given the right underlying reasoning mechanisms, such systems have great potential to improve users' experience as they interact with complex applications and information spaces. Their success, however, relies not only on their ability to model and reason about relevant user and contextual factors, but also on the manner in which the intelligence is delivered, or in other words, the interaction design. This course will introduce a number of core applied AI and HCI techniques pertinent to the design and evaluation of intelligent interactive systems and will provide exposure to state-of-the-art research in the area.
Topics and Concepts Covered
Possible topics and concepts covered throughout the course include:
- GUI personalization
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Recommender systems
- Interruption management
- Taking over routine tasks
- AI and usability issues
- Cognitive modelling
- Bayesian Networks
- Decision theory
- Unsupervised machine learning
- Evaluation methodologies
- Basic statistical analysis
Meeting Time and Location
Mondays/Wednesdays 2:30pm-4:00pm in EITC E2-461.
Textbook
There is no textbook for the course. Reading material for the course will consists mainly of research papers, in conjunction with sections from a selection of different books.
Grading Scheme
Details of the marking scheme can be found on the
ROASS document.