M. Graham, Philips Research Laboratories, UK

Lecture
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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
                      Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
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Mike Graham
Senior Scientist
Interactive Systems Group, Philips Research Laboratories, UK


    THE FILM AGENT: SYNTHESIZING A PERSONALISED TELVISION PROGRAMME

In recent years, the rapid growth in the availability of digital 
entertainment content through diverse distribution channels has 
motivated academic and industrial research in the area of personalised 
filtering and recommendation technology. Philips' Film Agent is a 
prototype of recommendation system in the domain of movies, for use 
in the home on domestic consumer electronic equipment.

The Film Agent synthesizes a personalised TV review programme. 
It explains its recommendations by specific reference to a user's 
viewing history, and exploits the conventions of television programme 
production to present multimedia information which it gathers from 
various remote internet resources. The design of the system takes 
into consideration its anticipated domestic context of use, the 
likely capabilities of near-future consumer-level platforms, and 
insights from the academic community about believable agents.

In this talk, I shall describe the architecture and components of 
the system, and discuss the motivations for the design choices it 
embodies. I shall also show a short (offline) demonstration of the 
Film Agent in action.


Zeit:   Freitag, 15. Maerz 2002, 17:00 Uhr pktl.
Ort:    Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut 
        fuer Artificial Intelligence    
        Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien.


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FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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