Designing interfaces for guided collection of knowledge about everyday objects from volunteers

  • Authors:
  • Timothy Chklovski

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A new generation of intelligent applications can be enabled by broad-coverage knowledge repositories about everyday objects. We distill lessons in design of intelligent user interfaces which collect such broad-coverage knowledge from untrained volunteers. We motivate the knowledge-driven template-based approach adopted in Learner2, a second generation proactive acquisition interface for eliciting such knowledge. We present volume, accuracy, and recall of knowledge collected by fielding the system for 5 months. Learner2 has so far acquired 99,018 general statements, emphasizing knowledge about parts of and typical uses of objects.