COLLAGEN: A collaboration manager for software interface agents

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 315-350

  Rich, Charles ^a,c,d   Sidner, Candace L ^b,d,e  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Lotus Development Corporation   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Amer Assoc for Artif Intelligence   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Collaboration; Discourse; Interaction history; Mixed initiative; Segment; SharedPlan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000284601     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008204020038     Document Type: Article

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