Adaptive User Interfaces: Projects

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Here is a list of the current AUI projects:

Dialogue Management
	Mentor	Mentor embodies a client-server system and protocol, a multi-modal state-based DM that supports suitable pedagogies to help the students to learn, a VHML [23] [26] compliant Knowledge Base that holds the domain knowledge, and a multi- and hyper-media Client interface (). Each user connects to the central server through the network via a Mentor client. The Mentor server - a Java based mini operating system in its own right - is about 70,000 lines of code in 170 classes in 50 packages.	•Andrew Marriott Contact
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	Rexpression Generator for Dialogue Management System	This research is concerned with text-based Computer-Human dialogues (CHD). Spelling errors and wrong word choices are forgivable in a human-to-human dialogue. However, these errors are significant in the natural language processing which relies on correct syntax and grammar. This research aims to develop techniques for errors anticipation, synonyms expansion and English to SMS text translation. Hence, by understanding and addressing these problems in CHD, better pattern matching scripts can be written to significantly reduce the disruptions of the dialogue flow and improve the general usability of Dialogue Managers. The outcome is an application that applies these techniques with its performance evaluated.	•Swee Huat Tan •Andrew Marriott •Michael Borck Contact
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	IS-A	This research studies the application of isA and allAre proposition for computer understanding in Artificial Intelligence. NOTE: This site is under construction. Please check back soon.	•Sony Lin •Andrew Marriott Contact
	Outcomes Focused Education	The goal of the "Mentor and Outcomes Focused Education" project is to determine if the Mentor software agent system can be successfully applied to Curtin University's Outcomes Focused Education (OFE) environment. This will involve a system refinement and a longitudinal case study to evaluate expected outcomes and benefits.	•Andrew Marriott •Michael Borck •Donald Reid •David Gondwe Contact
Embodied Conversational Agents
	Personality	The research will design, implement and evaluate an adaptive personality model for an Embodied Conversational Agent. This research will be done in a number of stages: Investigate previous research and theories of personality models, and their specification. Select an existing or design a new specification for an adaptive personality model. Convert the specification into a suitable computer model. Implement the model on an MPEG-4 facial animation system. Evaluate the model in terms of user identification of the modeled personality and the effectiveness of the human computer interaction. Disseminate research findings.	•Adam He Xiao •Andrew Marriott •Donald Reid Contact
	VHML	The language is designed to accommodate the various aspects of Human-Computer Interaction with regards to Facial Animation, Body Animation, Dialogue Manager interaction, Text to Speech production, Emotional Representation plus Hyper and Multi Media information.	•Andrew Marriott Contact
	Smilie-mail: An Avatar-based Asynchronous Communication Application	The research was carried out in the areas of Facial animation, MPEG-4 Standard and VHML. The research resulted in the design, development and evaluation of an easy to use online system that was used in the communication of messages that were perceived by the users as affective and engaging.	•George Mutale •Andrew Marriott Contact
	Smilies2/	This project deals within the area of Human Computer Interfaces in which the Smilie-Mail application undertakes some modification to improve it's HCI	Andrew Marriott Contact
	FaceFactory: Adaptable 2½D MPEG-4 Facial Models	This research studies 2D MPEG-4 compliant facial models ala MetaFace and effective UI to assemble them.	•Tonny Wijaya •Andrew Marriott Contact
	FaceFactoryFactor: Extensible 2½D MPEG-4 Facial Models	This research is continued on studying 2D MPEG-4 compliant facial models ala MetaFace and effective UI to assemble them. It will be mainly focusing on adding new elements into the previous project and others possible improvements.	•Fei Kwok •Andrew Marriott Contact
Companions for the Elderly
	Pandora	The typical companion of many old people is the TV. It is their source of information and entertainment. It is very familiar to old people and most have mastered its complexities. It is not new, it is not threatening. It is ideal to house a Companion - an intelligent companion that has a face and can converse with the user. Put the Companion into the TV - Pandora	•Marianne Taylor •Andrew Marriott •Jan Lewis •Donald Reid Contact
	C-Chat: A video chat system for the elderly	This project aims to design a video chat component for the Pandora framework. The component is based on the principles of adaptive user interfaces and is meant for use by elderly people. The focus of this research is to investigate the usefulness of video chat applications for the elderly and their caretakers.	•Parija Mehta •Andrew Marriott •Donald Reid Contact
Enabling Technology
	Expand	Expandy allows full control of the Gnome window manager environment through a single button interface. This gives people with physical disabilities access to a computing environment by emulating keyboard and mouse events using an actuator and on-screen feedback. While commercial solutions exist, the costs involved can be high. The expand system aims to be free, or at least inexpensive. This applies to all aspects of the system including hardware, software, and support.	•Wilson Waters •Andrew Marriott Contact