Research Direction

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Research Direction
INTELLIGENT AUGMENTATION (IA)
Semantic social scaffolding (AWESOME) (L. Lau, S.
Bajanki, K. Kaufold, R. ORourke, A.
Walker) Social semantic web and DL (British
Library)
Augment knowledge capture (R. Denaux, A.G. Cohn,
G. Hart) Use of ontology to augment browsing in
DL (I. Corda, B. Bennett)
Knowledge-enriched technologies
Socialisation (working in communitiescrowd
wisdom)
Personalisation (right content at the right time
to the right person)
Ubiquitous technologies
Deriving models of communities,
Community-tailored support (S. Kleanthous)
Capturing user experiences - Fire Risk
Assessment (W. Eamsitavanna, D. Allen)
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Intelligent Augmentation

• Augmentation the act of augmenting, i.e.
• to understand, support, enhance, improve,
  increase, facilitate discovering and responding
  to needs.
• What to augment broad range
• people (improve knowledge/skills/awareness)tasks
  (complex tasks, common tasks)practices (better
  working together, individual vs community,
  organisational practice) processes (individual
  organisational processes)

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Flipping the AI

• Artificial Intelligence making intelligent
  machines which can perform tasks humans perform
• Intelligent Augmentation use intelligent
  techniques to understand and support people,
  tasks, processes, and practices
• Change of Focus not replace humans but augment
  their workwhat can we augment, how can we be
  sure that the augmentation has happened

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Related Terms

• Intelligence Augmentation Lydias presentation
• Augmented Reality NOT RELATED research in
  Virtual Reality, create immersive environments
  which enable real life experiences in a virtual
  world
• Augmented Intelligence or Computer-Augmented
  Intelligence TOO NARROW similarity with
  computer-aided instruction we aim for more than
  just learning

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Initial Feedback Points for Discussion

• What is the step change brought by IA?How can we
  justify and proof this?
• Why now? What can we do now which we could not
  do before?
• What impact can it make?Why is IA important, why
  the existing approaches do not offer the expected
  impact (what is missing in them which we are
  offering here)?