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Interactionist AI and the promise of ubicomp, or, how to put your box in the world without putting the world in your box

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Phoebe Sengers,

Michael MateasAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing

Pages 134 - 143

https://doi.org/10.1145/1409635.1409654

Published: 21 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

In many ways, the central problem of ubiquitous computing -- how computational systems can make sense of and respond sensibly to a complex, dynamic environment laden with human meaning -- is identical to that of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Indeed, some of the central challenges that ubicomp currently faces in moving from prototypes that work in restricted environments to the complexity of real-world environments -- e.g. difficulties in scalability, integration, and fully formalizing context -- echo some of the major issues that have challenged AI researchers over the history of their field. In this paper, we explore a key moment in AI's history where researchers grappled directly with these issues, resulting in a variety of novel technical solutions within AI. We critically reflect on six strategies from this history to suggest technical solutions for how to approach the challenge of building real-world, usable solutions in ubicomp today.

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UbiComp '08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing

September 2008

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ISBN:9781605581361

DOI:10.1145/1409635

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Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
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