Situated Interaction in the Open World: New Systems and Challenges

  • Sean Andrist, Microsoft

A presentation to the graduate seminar on AI at University of Washington, November 30, 2018.

“In this talk, I will introduce a research effort we call “Situated Interaction,” in which we strive to design and develop intelligent technologies that can reason deeply about their surroundings and engage in fluid interaction with humans in physically situated settings. Our research group has developed a number of prototype systems in this space, including smart elevators, virtual agent receptionists, and directions-giving robots, and we have encountered a host of interesting and unforeseen challenges along the way. To address some of these challenges, our current focus is on the Platform for Situated Intelligence (\psi), an open-source extensible platform meant to enable the fast development of multimodal, integrative-AI systems.”

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