RE: HM.VR_AI: Goals and Overview : HumanML_VR_AI Facilitator

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

Of course the dilemma there is secondary receivers (or multiple receivers past the intended receiver).  For example, the word "crusade" has a

loose meaning in the west.  To a person from the Middle East, it has a pejorative or emotional meaning.  So code lists are developed that

have cultural attributes.   This means the sender tries to ascertain the use of the code in each view (where the view is an aggregation of

culture, history, etc.) and the receiver attempts to determine the scoping of the original message (intent: was it local meaning of sender,

or was it intended to inflame the secondary receiver).   For example, one can envision an interface in which a gesture or word is expressed

in a view consisting of personal time, historical time, culture, etc. joined to a set of all possible receivers ranked by the intention of the

sender for a given receiver to get this message in primary or secondary roles (or any set of roles you can envision).  This would return

a graph where that gesture is the topic and all of the receiver interpretations are linked nodes with some visualization technique

(say color coding) that ranks the interpretations according to some other dimension (criticality, danger, affinity, whatever).    This

would make it possible to explore different interpretations and pick one that meets the local politic.  Remember, the system doesn't

find a "true" meaning; it enables one to choose a meaning.   

 

In a more formal communication, say a process constrained set of messages, one creates a protocol.   This means that the potential

interpretations and the potential receivers are much more limited enabling a much more predictable behavior as long as everyone

sticks to the a priori rules for the protocol.   Such contract-constrained communications usually include a phase similar to

what is described above in which a set of message types are proposed, contracted, and limited in the interpretation such that

the response behavior can be observed and validated as belonging to an acceptable range.  Otherwise, if outside the range,

the system punts to a negotiation node to enable it to determine the next move.

 

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Nixon [mailto:robnixon@execpc.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 4:03 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: Rex Brooks; Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga; OASIS Comment
Subject: Re: HM.VR_AI: Goals and Overview : HumanML_VR_AI Facilitator

I should clarify that we will need support for  both a numeric (not Borg only)  value, AND human readable value.  But the values need to "mean" something tangible across all human cultures as Len mentions.