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This paper suggests a psychological approach to the problem of context management in intelligent software. The user’s motivational context is taken by the agent as its own motivational context. While traditional task-specific context problems still must be dealt with, the agent can use its semi-autonomous motivation to navigate these problems on the user’s behalf. An implementation strategy is suggested.
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Adams, W.A. (2001). The Motivational Context. In: Akman, V., Bouquet, P., Thomason, R., Young, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_31
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