RE: HM.applications-Profiling-Level of Details/Abstraction

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

**including Sean's realization of the example here***

Beautiful Sean!

To make that a little easier, the authors summarize 
analogy as "deliberate analogy" and it works like

"Given a task with an item Y that is a member of a specific category, recall
how to perform the same task with another member, X, of the same category,
then do what you would do for X, except replace all occurrences of X by Y."

The implication of course is that the system matches and tries 
a similar action.  If it works, it adds that fact to the knowledge 
base.  If it doesn't, it tries something else.

There is an old rule of thumb about analogical systems that 
says "don't play zero-sum games", or by example, don't play 
Russian/American roulette.

We're getting example bound, but the idea is to show 
that the levels of detail are hard to come by without 
a working example, and the example can be chosen from 
scenarios.

To complete this for a proto-prototype, we might 
try to show how this information would be used 
by the VHML avatar to demonstrate or explain 
to a car user how to turn on the air conditioner.  
More specific and a bit tougher 
given a hot car with children in it, how to show the children.
(let's say they do have the key and we don't want them 
to get out of the car.  This isn't realistic but 
I don't want to make a harder example.).

For VHML to be more than static presentation, 
it requires an interface back to a sensor-active 
system with a contextual knowledge base.  Now, 
children shouldn't be scared into doing something 
and might be panicked, might be strapped in, etc. 
So the VHML capability to control emotion given 
a situation, a context, and a particular human 
with particular characteristics would be a very 
effective communicator.

Car detects temperature, children in children's 
seats.  Knows children's names, weights, ages 
(humanML facts) and has a set of vocabularies 
it can select from given these facts.  Also 
knows mother's cell phone and local public 
safety systems numbers (child might fail to 
act and/or temperature is increasing fast).

An example more useful than a refrigerator 
telling an oven the temperature to cook 
pizza at is useful. 

Len 
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