Research abstracts on Social Networks, Common Sense, and Knowledge Management.
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Nathan Eagle, Alex (Sandy) Pentland
"A ubiquitous wearable computing infrastructure is now firmly entrenched within organizations across the globe, yet much of its potential remains untapped. This paper describes how the handheld computers and mobile phones in today's organizations can be used to quantify face-to-face interactions and to infer aspects about a user's situation, enabling more creative and transparent functioning of human organizations."
Nathan Eagle, Push Singh, Alex (Sandy) Pentland
"This paper introduces a system that incorporates both contextual and commonsensical information to understand the gist of an informal, face-to-face conversation. We show that wearable devices, such as PDAs or cell phones, can provide the valuable contextual information critical for robust classification of a detailed conversation topic. "
Nathan Eagle
Submitted to the Artificial Intelligence, Information Access, and Mobile Computing Workshop at the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Acapulco, Mexico. August 2003.
"We introduce a method for situation understanding in natural, face-to-face conversation. Our method combines a network of commonsense knowledge with keyword spotting and contextual information automatically obtained from a wearable device such as a PDA or cell phone. Using this method we demonstrate the potential for high accuracy, detailed classification of conversation topic."
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