Collaborative interface agents

Interface agents are semi-intelligent systemswhich assist users with daily computer-basedtasks. Recently, various researchers have proposeda learning approach towards building suchagents and some working prototypes have beendemonstrated. Such agents learn by `watchingover the shoulder" of the user and detecting patternsand regularities in the user's behavior. Despitethe successes booked, a major problem withthe learning approach is that the agent has tolearn from scratch and thus...