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We propose a notion of a real-world knowledge medium by presenting our ongoing project to build a guidance system for exhibition tours. In order to realize a knowledge medium usable in the real world, we focus on the context-awareness of users and their environments. Our system is a personal mobile assistant that provides visitors touring exhibitions with information based on their spatial/temporal locations and individual interests. We also describe an application of knowledge sharing used in the actual exhibition spaces.
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Yasuyuki Sumi, Ph.D.: He has been a researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories since 1995. His research interests include knowledge-based systems, creativity supporting systems, and their applications for facilitating human collaboration. He received his B. Eng. degree from Waseda University in 1990, and M. Eng. and D. Eng. degrees in information engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is a member of Institutes of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan, the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), and American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Kenji Mase, Ph.D.: He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Engineering from Nagoya University in 1979, 1981 and 1992 respectively. He has been with ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories since 1995 and is currently the head of Department 2. He joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1981 and had been with the NTT Human Interface Laboratories. He was a visiting researcher at the Media Laboratory, MIT in 1988–1989. His research interests include image sequence processing of human actions, computer graphics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and their applications for computer-aided communications and human-machine interfaces. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Institutes of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan and IEEE Computer Society.
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Sumi, Y., Mase, K. Toward a real-world knowledge medium: Building a guidance system for exhibition tours. NGCO 17, 407–416 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037246
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037246