IntInt'09

The IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction

This workshop will engage people with ongoing and nascent interest in challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI). The workshop will bring AI researchers together with researchers who are situated more centrally in the HCI community to explore research directions and opportunities for (1) learning and reasoning to enhance human-computer (and human-robot) interaction, and (2) the potential for embedding and involving people more deeply in the operation of learning and reasoning systems.

Current research at this intersection is often limited by a separation of concerns. Attempts to automate problem solving and learning can lead AI researchers to bypass prospects for deeper human involvement in the operation of an intelligent system. It is also not uncommon for HCI researchers to attempt to treat AI methods as black boxes, sometimes abandoning promising applications after only initial and shallow explorations of the learning and reasoning necessary to enable those applications. We believe that considering and iterating on both sides of the equation simultaneously opens new opportunities for deep research agendas in both domains.