Effective Computer Agents for Interacting With People

CSAIL Event Calendar

Speaker: Ya'akov (Kobi) Gal, MIT CSAIL and Harvard School of Applied Sciences
Date: Wednesday, March 5 2008
Time: 2:00PM to 3:30PM


This talk will present work that addresses challenges by synthesizing techniques from computer science with insights from the behavioral and social sciences.
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A language that makes explicit the different mental models agents use to make their decisions, described as nodes in a graphical network. The language defines an equilibrium that makes a distinction between agents' optimal strategies and the way they actually behave in reality.
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For best performance, computers participating in mixed human-computer settings must model human behavior in a way that reflects the contextual setting in which the decision is presented to people.

Link to the speaker:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~gal