Autonomous interface agents
- 27 March 1997
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract
Two branches of the trend towards "agents" that are gainingcurrency are interface agents, software that actively assists auser in operating an interactive interface, and autonomousagents, software that takes action without user interventionand operates concurrently, either while the user is idle ortaking other actions. These two branches are related, but notidentical, and are often lumped together under the singleterm "agent". Much agent work can be classified as eitherbeing an...Keywords
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