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

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

An interesting scenario because it can use a lot 
of recent topics the more I think about it:

o  SOAP message is created and sent to 911 dispatch 
center

o  SOAP message is used to activate alert on driver's 
cell phone (might be dad)

o  Car loaded with HumanML data sends ID (VIN) to 
911.  911 dipatches and sends SOAP plus VIN onto 
Motor Vehicle Check to confirm.  Car was loaded 
with HumanML when purchased and in fact, that 
data and datatype matches the public safety 
records and other e-gov systems.

Can't simply turn on engine or roll down windows 
(dangerous - these are children).

Can't simply unlock doors but that would be last 
option.  Why:

o  Children are young and unsupervised

Requires very enabled-car and manufacturer 
might not build it and owner might not own one
 
so a communications solution is cheap and available. 

Same computer that displays avatar might be entertaining 
the children so system might stop that one and put 
up one that is authoritative (eg, kid laughs at Bugs 
Bunny no matter what, but an avatar of Mom or Dad 
would be recognizable).

So it has to reason out the set of alternatives.  The 
optimum is to get the adult back to the car, but should 
quickly send the 911 message.  Use of the avatar is optional 
but it could pacify the child or prompt the child to action, 
and anyway, we have the need to demonstrate emotional 
message controls and VHML is a good way to do that because 
it has facial, gestural and voice inflection attributes.


Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:33 PM
To: Sean B. Palmer; humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: raytrace@smtp.cs.curtin.edu.au
Subject: RE: HM.applications-Profiling-Level of Details/Abstraction


**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 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


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