Struck by a market-making provocation from today: "Imagine a world where you love how you make choices and you love how you're directing your attention, because tech inventors are competing to figure out how best to help you live as you intend."
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It's not clear how to align incentives so that this becomes a relevant design question for tech co's, but I'm enjoying the prompt. It's interesting that OSes have contacts, calendars, docs, etc—yet no representation of anything purposive, of ways of being, of "what matters?"
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Funny to contrast the ubiquitous to-do app's model with intentions which might deeply matter to someone, like "I want to make sure I'm taking my ideas as seriously as possible." Tasks are such a misleading way of thinking about intention. But hey, it's easier to build a to-do UI!
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You might be interested in our research on flexible supportive tech that takes into account norms and values of people. We develop models that allow representation and elicitation of people’s daily behavior with underlying values + reasoning.
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Will read; thank you!
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Update: I was fascinated by your group's attempt to systematize this type of reasoning. Have these theories yet been applied or instantiated in any interactive systems? I wasn't able to find any references of that kind, but I may have missed them!
Thank you for following up and for your interest! We have developed several research prototypes. The latest 3 pubs on intimate-computing.net/intimate-compu concern a mobile location sharing app for families based on social agreements (focus on representation, no advanced reasoning yet :).
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A video tutorial we used in an experiment with the app is available here: bit.do/ePartner. Also a prototype agent that asks people in a (rudimentary) dialogue about daily habits and values: ii.tudelft.nl/coresaep/wp-co. A publication about the experiment is in the making.
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