From: terveen@allegra.att.com (Loren Terveen) Subject: CONF: Workshop on Collaborative Problem Solving, Edinburgh, Aug 93 Date: 20 Mar 93 02:52:26 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Crossposted from news.announce.conferences The following workshop will be held Friday, August 27th, at the 1993 World Conference on AI and Education, in Edinburgh, Scotland. If you intend to participate, please submit a 2-4 page position paper by April 1st. COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS Collaborative problem solving is a process of multiple agents working together to achieve shared goals. We will examine implemented systems that collaborate with their users and theoretical and empirical work aimed at elucidating the nature of collaborative processes. While our focus will be on work that explores these issues as they arise in the context of teaching and learning, we also will examine work from other domains that illuminates issues of general importance. Important topics to be addressed include: - effective division of responsibility between users and system, particularly when the user is a learner, and the learner's skills change over time. - making the user-system interaction clear and natural, e.g., when should a system interrupt users to deliver advice and how should advice be delivered? - knowledge and architectural requirements for a system to be an effective collaborative partner, e.g., what sorts of models of the user does the system need? Workshop Chair: Loren Terveen AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 terveen@research.att.com +1 908 582 2608 Organizing Committee: Gerhard Fischer, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder W. Lewis Johnson, Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of Southern California Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh Tak-Wai Chan, Institute of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C