Developing Intelligent Assistants in Digital Convergence

Sung-Bae Cho: Yonsei University, Department of Computer Science, 134 Shinchon-dong, Sudaemoon-ku, Seoul 120-749, Korea (TEL) +82-2-2123-2720 (FAX) +82-2-365-2579 (E-Mail) sbcho@cs.yonsei.ac.kr (URL) http://sclab.yonsei.ac.kr

Abstract

Mobile phone becomes an essential medium for human communication. As more people get using mobile phones, various services based on mobile phone networks and high-end devices have been developed. In addition, with the growth of the concept of ubiquitous computing, there are many ongoing studies on novel and useful services in smartphone which is a new generation of mobile phone with computing capability. For intelligent service in smartphone this paper proposes a prototype of an intelligent agent that uses user modeling technique based on Bayesian network and rule based service selection mechanism. It infers the user's state such as his current affect, how busy he is, and how familiar someone is with him from personal information and communication log using Bayesian network and provides appropriate services on the basis of the inferred knowledge. The proposed agent is applied to some realistic situations to confirm the usefulness.

Short Biography

Dr. Sung-Bae Cho is a Professor in the Computer Science Department in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He was an Invited Researcher of Human Information Processing Research Laboratories at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Institute, Kyoto, Japan from 1993 to 1995, and a Visiting Scholar at University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia in 1998. His research interests include neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent man-machine interfaces, evolutionary computation, and artificial life.

Dr. Cho was awarded outstanding paper prizes from the IEEE Korea Section in 1989 and 1992, and other ones from the Korea Information Science Society in 1990 and 2005. He was also the recipient of the Richard E. Merwin prize from the IEEE Computer Society in 1993. He received the best paper awards at International Conference on Soft Computing in 1996 and 1998. Also, he received the best paper award at World Automation Congress in 1998. He is a Member of the Korea Information Science Society, INNS, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.