What is "intelligent" in intelligent user interfaces?

Sarah Theres Völkel, Christina Schneegass, Malin Eiband, Daniel Buschek

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Abstract

This reflection paper takes the 25th IUI conference milestone as an opportunity to analyse in detail the understanding of intelligence in the community: Despite the focus on intelligent UIs, it has remained elusive what exactly renders an interactive system or user interface "intelligent", also in the fields of HCI and AI at large. We follow a bottom-up approach to analyse the emergent meaning of intelligence in the IUI community: In particular, we apply text analysis to extract all occurrences of "intelligent" in all IUI proceedings. We manually review these with regard to three main questions: 1) What is deemed intelligent? 2) How (else) is it characterised? and 3) What capabilities are attributed to an intelligent entity? We discuss the community's emerging implicit perspective on characteristics of intelligence in intelligent user interfaces and conclude with ideas for stating one's own understanding of intelligence more explicitly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages477-487
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781450371186
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2020 - Cagliari, Italy
Duration: 17 Mar 202020 Mar 2020
Conference number: 25

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Conference

Conference25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2020
Abbreviated titleIUI ’20
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityCagliari
Period17/03/2020/03/20

Keywords

  • intelligent user interfaces
  • meta analysis
  • survey

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