Multimodal user interfaces in the Open Agent Architecture

摘要

The design and development of the Open Agent Architecture (OAA)3 system has focused on providing access to agent-based applications through an intelligent, cooperative, distributed, and multimodal agent-based user interface. Only the primary user interface agents need run on the local computer, thereby simplifying the task of using a range of applications from a variety of platforms, especially low-powered computers. An important consideration in the design of the OAA was to facilitate the reuse of agents in new and unanticipated applications, and to support rapid prototyping. The utility of the agents and tools developed has been demonstrated by their use as infrastructure in unrelated projects.