[Ltg] HAIL Seminar (14th September): Dr Nathalie Colineau and Andrew Lampert, CSIRO ICT Centre

[Andrew Lampert]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/


Title:          Task-Sensitive User Interfaces

Speaker:        Dr Nathalie Colineau and Andrew Lampert
                Information Engagement Research Stream
                CSIRO ICT Centre

Date:           Tuesday 14th September 2004 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO ICT Centre,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

In the context of innovative Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) platform capabilities, we have built a task-driven interaction environment that supports the generation of information tailored to surveillance operators' tasks. This environment delivers tailored multimedia information from the analysis and the recognition of the operator's activity. This aims at supporting the operators and maximizing their efficiency by automatically providing them with information relevant to their tasks.

In this talk, we will present how a graphical user interface (GUI) can be integrated with delivery mechanisms to allow task-sensitive information delivery. In particular, we present our delivery engine, the Virtual Document Planner (VDP), which tailors the presentation of multimedia information for the operators. We will also discuss how to enable the GUI to adapt the display to support the operator in the task-at-hand.


Short resumes

Nathalie Colineau

Nathalie Colineau is a computational linguist. She spent several years in Paris studying Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, and did her Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences in Grenoble at the CLIPS laboratory. Then, she became a member of the Human Computer Interaction Group at Thales Research and Technology (TRT Lab) in Paris. Nathalie has been involved in several projects concerned with designing more flexible and natural spoken interfaces.  In particular, she worked on Speech Understanding and Dialogue Modeling.

Since November 2000, Nathalie has been a Research Scientist at CSIRO. She is working in the Information Engagement research stream of the CSIRO ICT Centre.  Her research interests focus on the design of Intelligent Information Systems.  In particular, she is interested to study how notions of coherence and dialogue can be applied to media other than the textual medium, and how they can support natural and appropriate interactions.

Andrew Lampert

Andrew Lampert is a research software engineer in the Information Engagement research stream at the CSIRO ICT Centre. When he's not organizing HAIL seminars, Andrew spends his time researching and implementing software for coherent, context sensitive information delivery using concepts, techniques and algorithms from natural language generation, information extraction, information retrieval, discourse planning, text classification, user modeling, task analysis and a host of related fields.

Before joining CSIRO in early 2002, Andrew worked at a variety of technology companies where he immersed himself in most phases of the software development lifecycle. Having studied Software Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Andrew is currently a part-time Masters student in the Speech, Hearing and Language Research Centre at Macquarie University.


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