Intelligent assistants that support human communication need to respect the difficulty of understanding the context surrounding the interchange. Rather than attempting to directly communicate for a user, intelligent assistants should support decision making on the part of the involved parties so that complex social negotiations are preserved. We describe an intelligent assistant that does this for instant messaging called Nomatic*Gaim.( permanent, local copy )
Published in AAAI Spring Symposium 2007.
C.V.: CR-08