Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners for Socio-geographical Support

摘要

Social software have been successful in gathering a large number of users in the industrialized world. An opportunity exists in utilizing social software to enhance the quality of life of ourselves and those important to us. In our research we focus on elementary school children as they begin to discover their surrounding areas, and become more involved in interaction with their peers. We explore the possibility of providing socio-geographical support by creating a system of electronic partners (or ePartners), which are intelligent agents that function as teammates to their human users. Since social contexts and familial situations can vary, it is crucial that ePartners are capable of providing personalized support, We aim to achieve that by providing a rich specification language, allowing users to enter their social requirements into the ePartner as norms.