The Glass Infrastructure: Using Common Sense to Create a Dynamic, Place-Based Social Information System

The Glass Infrastructure: Using Common Sense to Create a Dynamic, Place-Based Social Information System

Authors

  • Catherine Havasi Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Richard Borovoy Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Boris Kizelshteyn Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jon Ferguson Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Henry Holtzman Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Andrew Lippman Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Dan Schultz Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Matthew Blackshaw
  • Greg Elliott Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Chaki Ng Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v25i2.18845

Abstract

Most organizations have a wealth of knowledge about themselves available online, but little for a visitor to interact with on-site. At the MIT Media Lab, we have designed and deployed a novel intelligent signage system, the Glass Infrastructure (GI) that enables small groups of users to physically interact with this data and to discover the latent connections between people, projects, and ideas. The displays are built on an adaptive, unsupervised model of the organization developed using dimensionality reduction and common sense knowledge which automatically classifies and organizes the information.
The GI is currently in daily use at the lab. We discuss the AI models development, the integration of AI into an HCI interface, and the use of the GI during the labs peak visitor periods. We show that the GI is used repeatedly by lab visitors and provides a window into the workings of the organization.

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Published

2011-08-11

How to Cite

Havasi, C., Borovoy, R., Kizelshteyn, B., Ypodimatopoulos, P., Ferguson, J., Holtzman, H., Lippman, A., Schultz, D., Blackshaw, M., Elliott, G., & Ng, C. (2011). The Glass Infrastructure: Using Common Sense to Create a Dynamic, Place-Based Social Information System: The Glass Infrastructure: Using Common Sense to Create a Dynamic, Place-Based Social Information System. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25(2), 1589-1596. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v25i2.18845

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2011): Twenty-Third Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference

Section

IAAI Technical Track: Deployed Papers