To reduce the workload of the driver due to the increasing amount of information and functions, intelligent agents represent a promising possibility to filter the immense data sets. The intentions of the driver can be analyzed and tasks can be accomplished autonomously, i.e. without interference of the user. In this contribution, different adaptive agents for the vehicle are realized: For examp...

Uncertainty plays a central role in spoken dialogue systems. Some stochastic models like the Markov decision process (MDP) are used to model the dialogue manager. But the partially observable system state and user intentions hinder the natural representation of the dialogue state. A MDP-based system degrades quickly when uncertainty about a user's intention increases. We propose a novel dialogu...

This paper describes an agent-based approach for making context and intention-aware recommendations of Points of Interest (POI). A two-parted agent architecture was used, with an agent responsible for gathering POIs from a location-based mobile application, and a set of Personal Assistant Agents (PAA), collecting information about the context and intentions of its respective user. Each PAA incl...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of science and technology summer camps on the confidence, values, and future intentions of female and male campers. The week-long camps were administered by Actua, a national organization with a mandate to inctease awareness of science and technology among Canadian youth. Campers completed a sutvey both pteand post-camp. Camps were perceived...

Technological developments and governments’ understanding of what citizens need usually determine the design of public online services. For successful implementation of e-Government services, governments have to place the user in the center of future developments, understand what citizens need and measure what increases citizens’ willingness to adopt e-government services. The paper uses the Te...

This paper describes an intelligent learning environment for novice users of a GUI. The learning environment allows users to work in a protected way; it monitors their actions and reasons about them so that it can make hypotheses about what their real intentions have been and examine whether these have been met. In case the system believes that the user has made an error it informs him/her abou...

This study investigates the challenges to Nigeria’s renewable energy growth; specifically, it analyzes factors that influence intention use in Nigeria. paper was based on theory of planned behavior, technology acceptance model, unified and technology, diffusion innovation theory, previous studies acceptance. The proposed hypotheses have been tested using structured questionnaires a sample 500 N...

Enhanced telecommunication technologies have enabled Taiwan government to provide businesses and citizens with integrated information and online services. Such technology-based services, often referred to e-government, have substantially advanced the efficiency and accessibility of public services. While the benefits of e-government are widely recognized, the use of online services remains low....