Research assistants

Personal Assistants

assistant—they can make the arrangements. " Our business cards used to list only our phone numbers. When fax machines became popular, we added our fax numbers. Now, our business cards also carry our e-mail addresses and our home page URLs. What's next? It could be the network addresses of our personal assistants. These assistants will take care of our schedule and may even represent us in many ...

Brownies as Assistants

This contribution discusses the use of assisting agents in interactive configuration systems. With so-called brownies a new metaphor for assisting agents is explored which guides the functional design but avoids the presentation problem. The metaphor can be stretched to include socially interacting agents which can support large-scale configurations. Interactive configuration Configuration prob...

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Digital Patient Assistants

Many countries have a compulsory health insurance system in place. Compulsory health insurers charge income related fees as opposed to private health insurers who charge risk related fees. Compulsory health insurance is based on solidarity among policy holders and can give them more privacy than any private health insurer can. As an example, we consider the German health insurance system, and w...

Web-based configuration assistants

Configuration assistants are tools for guiding the final user in simple configuration tasks, such as product assembling and customisation or study plans generation. For their wide availability, Web-based configuration assistants are valuable in fields such as electronic commerce and information services. We describe a general approach for building web-based configuration assistants: from a high...