1 © Franz J. Kurfess Constrained Access Franz J. Kurfess Cal Poly SLO Computer Science Department

2 © Franz J. Kurfess Knowledge-Centric Interaction

Franz Kurfess: Knowledge Interaction Some of the material in these slides was developed for a lecture series sponsored by the European Community under the BPD program with Vilnius University as host institution Acknowledgements

4 © Franz J. Kurfess Acknowledgements

5 © Franz J. Kurfess Use and Distribution of these Slides ❖ These slides are primarily intended for the students in classes I teach. In some cases, I only make PDF versions publicly available. If you would like to get a copy of the originals (Apple KeyNote or Microsoft PowerPoint), please contact me via at I hereby grant permission to use them in educational settings. If you do so, it would be nice to send me an about it. If you’re considering using them in a commercial environment, please contact me first.

6 © Franz J. Kurfess Logistics

7 © Franz J. Kurfess Preliminaries

8 © Franz J. Kurfess Bridge-In ❖ How do you interact with the knowledge that you’re creating or using?  brain  paper  computer

9 © Franz J. Kurfess Motivation and Objectives

10 © Franz J. Kurfess Motivation

11 © Franz J. Kurfess Objectives

12 © Franz J. Kurfess Overview Constraint Access to Knowledge ❖ Motivation ❖ Objectives ❖ Access Constraints  Technology  Domains  Tasks  User Limitations and Preferences  Culture and Society  Economics ❖ Examples ❖ Important Concepts and Terms ❖ Chapter Summary

13 Access Constraints Technology  Domains Tasks Situations User Limitations and Preferences Culture and Society Economics

14 Technology Input and Output Devices Computation Storage Transmission

15 Domains Intelligence (as in CIA) Military Security Health Finance

16 Tasks Activities Environment

17 Situations Focus of Attention Privacy Annoyance Avoidance

18 User Limitations and Preferences Disabilities Input: Vision, Hearing Output: Speech, Movement Preferences language: spoken vs. written presentation: textual vs. visual

19 Culture and Society Language Norms and Laws Intellectual Property Education Infrastructure

20 Economics Monetization of Knowledge

21 © Franz J. Kurfess Ausklang

22 © Franz J. Kurfess Post-Test

23 © Franz J. Kurfess Evaluation ❖ Criteria

24 © Franz J. Kurfess KP/KM Activity ❖ select a domain that requires significant human involvement for dealing with knowledge ❖ identify at least two candidates for  knowledge representation  reasoning ❖ evaluate their suitability  human perspective  understandable and usable for humans  computational perspective  storage, processing

25 © Franz J. Kurfess KP/KM Activity Outcomes 2007 ❖ Images with Metadata ❖ Extracting contact information from text ❖ Qualitative and quantitative knowledge about cheese making ❖ Visualization of astronomy data ❖ Surveillance/security KM ❖ Marketing ❖ Face recognition ❖ Visual marketing

26 © Franz J. Kurfess Important Concepts and Terms ❖ automated reasoning ❖ belief network ❖ cognitive science ❖ computer science ❖ deduction ❖ frame ❖ human problem solving ❖ inference ❖ intelligence ❖ knowledge acquisition ❖ knowledge representation ❖ linguistics ❖ logic ❖ machine learning ❖ natural language ❖ ontology ❖ ontological commitment ❖ predicate logic ❖ probabilistic reasoning ❖ propositional logic ❖ psychology ❖ rational agent ❖ rationality ❖ reasoning ❖ rule-based system ❖ semantic network ❖ surrogate ❖ taxonomy ❖ Turing machine

27 © Franz J. Kurfess Summary Knowledge Interaction

28 © Franz J. Kurfess