Participants in the third edition of the Hybrid Human-AI conference (HHAI2024) saw the presentation of two papers that are the result of ongoing collaborations between the UT and VU Amsterdam within the Smart Societies impact coalition. The conference gathered an international crowd of researchers on the topic of Human-AI collaboration.
The ‘Assessing the HI-ness of Virtual Heritage applications with Knowledge Engineering’ was written by researchers Delaram Javdani Rikhtehgar, Shenghui Wang and Dirk Heylen form the UT and Ilaria Tiddi and Stefan Schlobach from VU Amsterdam. The paper presents work on methodologically structuring research around an interactive virtual agent, applied to the cultural heritage domain.
The ‘Using Default Logic to Create Adaptable User Models for Behavior Support Agents’ was a working paper presented by UT PhD student Johanna Wolff and supervisors Victor de Boer from VU Amsterdam and Dirk Heylen and M. Birna van Riemsdijk from the UT. The paper presents work on using a specific type of logic to deal with inevitable inconsistencies that arise when users interact with behaviour support agents. For example in a phone application that suggests healthy lifestyle choices.
Both projects are funded by the Hybrid Intelligence Center that brings together Human-AI researchers from various Dutch universities, including VU Amsterdam and the UT. The two research papers are available as Open Access publications online.
