Conversational agents are becoming increasingly popular. These systems present an extremely rich and challenging research space for addressing many aspects of user awareness and adaptation, such as user profiles, contexts, personalities, emotions, social ...

As IoT devices begin to permeate our environment, our interaction with these devices are starting to have a real potential to transform our daily lives. Therefore, there exists an incredible opportunity for intelligent user interfaces to simplify the ...

Smart systems that apply complex reasoning to make decisions and plan behavior are often difficult for users to understand. While research to make systems more explainable and therefore more intelligible and transparent is gaining pace, there are ...

End-user programmable intelligent agents that can learn new tasks and concepts from users' explicit instructions are desired. This paper presents our progress on expanding the capabilities of such agents in the areas of task applicability, task ...

Machine learning methods have made significant progress across many application areas. However, the power to utilize these methods has remained out of reach for many domain experts due to the background knowledge required to tune parameters and debug ...

In this study, we propose a programming-by-example (PBE)-based data transformation method for feature engineering in machine learning. Data transformation by PBE is not new. However, we utilized the one proposed herein to improve the performance of ...

This demo shows a recommender bar and a planning workspace that augment an existing system. The design addresses two challenges for analysts doing proactive data protection: 1) the information overload from the many data repositories and protection ...

In this demo, we present PARLEY, an interactive system to train difficult social situations in a safe environment with a Virtual Agent. The system realizes different phenomena studied by psychology research that are known to create a natural interaction. ...

Effective personalization of web experiences constitutes matching user intent to content, while optimizing a set of engagement metrics and catering to diverse consumption mediums. The diversity of user interests necessitates automation in the process of ...

We build conversational agents to serve as AI interviewers who engage a user in a one-on-one, text-based conversation. Our live demos showcase two special skills of an AI interviewer: (a) ability to actively listen to a user during an interview-...