Symgroup: applying social agents in a group interaction system

Authors:
Jacques Wainer;Danillo Palacio Braga
Affiliations:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil;Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Venue:
GROUP '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
Year:
2001

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Abstract

This paper introduces the idea of social agents, that is, agents whose goals are to maintain or improve the social context of a group, while working with a groupware system. We discuss Symgroup, a discussion tool augmented with three social agents, one that implements a Symlog agent, that analyses the participant's behavior, and two others that implement ad hoc theories about attitudes toward the discussion.