Deliverable 4.4 - INSEAD CALT

AtGentive IST-4-027529-STP - Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learners8.13 Appendix 13 – Evaluation of the level of general applicabilityof the Reasoning Module (AUP)By AUPAfter the AtGentSchool pilot we are interested in testing how well the Reasoning Module(RM) may support user attention with applications that are not limited to those explored in thecourse of the project. Also we want to explore the cases in which the RM interacts withseveral user-level applications. By accepting events from several applicationssimultaneously, we assume the RM could be capable of supporting the management ofattention within a good part of the tasks the user will have to perform on the computer.For experimenting with the RM in this way, we have implemented a simple Test Platform thatrepresents a functional desktop environment. The applications available on the test platform,which could be of various complexity and sophistication, can be started from a start menuand are displayed in windows allowing interaction that is similar to standard desktopenvironments. Figure 1 is a screenshot of the test platform with a notepad applicationwindow visible on the left hand-side. On the right hand-side a second window allows the userto interact with the RM (this part of the interface is discussed later).Figure 1. The desktop is divided in two. The user has a view space for applications on the left and a sidebar forinteracting with the RM on the right.The test platform supports applications that conform to one of two simple interfacesdepending on whether they are AtGentive enabled or not (the first mentioned being a specialcase of the latter). Most notably, AtGentive enabled applications differ from normalDel 4.4: AtGentive Final Evaluation Report page 45