AgentSheets®

Thought Amplifier

AgentSheets, Inc.Boulder, CO, USA

Dr. Alexander Repenning, CEO

The Vision: what is needed?

Information that is of practical relevance to YOU Advance the vision of Every Citizens Interfaces through

information processing. Information consumers should be able to define how they process information. They should also be able to establish a multimodal interaction scheme between them and information spaces.

The Syntactic

Web

The Semantic

Web

The Pragmatic

Web

The Pragmatic Web

Use MultimodalEnd-User Programmable

Agents to Bridge the Gap between

Existing and Relevant Informationon the Web

Product: AgentSheets® Pro

A revolutionary Authoring Tool to create Multimodal End-User Programmable Agents-basedWeb services to turn existing into relevant information

Deliver content on: High end PDAs Cell Phone Browser, desktop

Example: Web Voice Portal

End-User Programming

AgentSheets Pro Components

AgentSheets®: Collection of spatially organized, collaborative agents

Visual AgenTalk®: an End-User Programming Language

Ristretto®: An interactive Web page generator tool Java (Java applets, JavaBean components) Flash

What can Agents Do?

Read Web pages in real time Play videos Talk Recognize Speech Animate 2D + 3D React to mouse & keyboard input

Platform 1: Cell Phones

Agents:

Extract, analyze and synthesize information

Increase signal to noise ratio

Bridge modalities, e.g., text <=> speech

Platform 2: PDAs

Some credentials

Advisor to the National Academy of Sciences: Information Technology for Education

“Most Creative Educational Application of the World Wide Web”

Gold Medal,Major of Paris, WWW5

NSF: > $8 million funding

“Best of the Best Innovators” Association for Computing Machinery,ACM

Advisor to the European Commission: End-User Computing initiative for the sixth framework

Publishers & Collaborators

Goal: seek partners in Japan in…

Wireless Communications: PDAs, Cell phones

Hardware companies Desktop, PDAs, Cell phones, Bluetooth

Content Producers Games Education (K-12, training)

AgentSheets®

What If?

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Spare Slides

What is wrong with the current Web?

WRONG Modality:

Blind users cannot read textual descriptions. Automatic text-to-speech interfaces may be

able to verbally convey the textual contents of a Web page to users, but if the Web page is formatted for visual access the sequential information access may become unintelligible or inefficient.

WRONG Language:

Crucial explanatory text may be provided in the wrong language. For instance less than 15% of U.S. Web sites contain Spanish translations

WRONG Nomenclature:

Information may be expressed in an unfamiliar measurement system. The translation of Celsius to Fahrenheit or kilometers to miles, while scientifically trivial, may represent a serious impediment for many users

WRONG Time:

The information may be correct, relevant and readable, but might be presented at the wrong time. Stock information, for instance, is most useful when presented in real-time.

WRONG Format:

Information can look great on a large computer monitor, but be completely unsuitable for small information devices such as PDAs and cell phones.

Architecture

Out of this World(very distance education)

Out of this World(very distance education)

NASA used AgentSheets to simulate an “E.coli in microgravity” experiment aboard the space shuttle Discovery with John Glenn