Alan Wexelblat

Modeling Interactive Agents in ALIVE (2008)

Pattie Maes, Bruce Blumberg, Trevor Darrell, Alex Pentl, Alan Wexelblat

In this video we discuss the design and implementation of a novel system which allows wireless full-body interaction between a human participant and a graphical world inhabited by autonomous agents....

History-Based Tools for Navigation (1999)

Alan Wexelblat

I present a research framework and some tools developed as part of an ongoing effort into defining and using interaction history as part of a user interface for social navigation, which is the...

Footprints: History-Rich Tools for Information Foraging (1999)

Alan Wexelblat, Pattie Maes

Inspired by Hill and Hollan's original work [6], we have been developing a theory of interaction history and building tools to apply this theory to navigation in a complex information space. We...

History-Rich Tools for Social Navigation (1998)

Alan Wexelblat

: I present a research framework and some tools developed as part of an ongoing effort into defining and using interaction history as part of a user interface for social navigation; that is, using...

Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing (1997)

Alan Wexelblat, Pattie Maes

Browsing is hard. Web pages present a plethora of options and there are often no clear guidelines to help a person find her way among the many possibilities. Particular goals may be addressed, but it...

Issues for Software Agent UI (1997)

Alan Wexelblat, Pattie Maes

Agent user interfaces pose a number of special challenges for interface designers. These challenges can be formulated as a series of issues which must be addressed: understanding, trust, control,...

An Approach to Natural Gesture in Virtual Environments (1995)

Alan Wexelblat

This article presents research—an experiment and the resulting prototype—on a method for treating gestural input so that it can be used for multimodal applications, such as interacting with...