CHISIG event - Using context to deliver useful information to people
Category: events | Date: 01/09/2006
When: 19 September 2006, 6pm
Where: PTG Global, L 16 207 Kent St, Sydney (Get map)
Cost: Free for CHISIG members, $5 for non-members
RSVP: Contact Susan Hanson, NSW representative for CHISIG
As Mitch Kapor,founder of Lotus Development Corporation, once said, 'Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant'. Andrew Lampert, Research Engineer in the Information Engneering Laboratory at the CSIRO ICT Centre, will be speaking about research that focuses on controlling the flow of information to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time in the right form. He approaches the problem by using knowledge about users and their interaction to tailor the information that is gathered and to present it appropriately.
The context information that is captured and reasoned about can include user preferences and characteristics, as well as details of a user's current task, their previous history of interaction and their environment. This context can determine which information should be retrieved, and how that content should be aggregated, organised, and presented, in order to best support the user.
Lampert's research is based on concepts and techniques from different fields, including: natural language generation, information extraction, information retrieval, discourse analysis, user modelling, task analysis and HCI.
