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  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Companion-Technology: An Overview
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 30, No. 1, 2016) Biundo, Susanne; Höller, Daniel; Schattenberg, Bernd; Bercher, Pascal
    Companion-technology is an emerging field of cross-disciplinary research. It aims at developing technical systems that appear as “Companions” to their users. They serve as co-operative agents assisting in particular tasks or, in a more general sense, even give companionship to humans. Overall, Companion-technology enables technical systems to smartly adapt their services to individual users’ current needs, their requests, situation, and emotion. We give an introduction to the field, discuss the most relevant application areas that will benefit from its developments, and review the related research projects.
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    Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement—Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 35, No. 0, 2021) Bercher, Pascal; Behnke, Gregor; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin; Manstetten, Dietrich; Dambier, Michael; Dorna, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
    We report on the technology transfer project “Do it yourself, but not alone: Companion -Technology for Home Improvement” that was carried out by Ulm University in cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH. We developed a prototypical assistance system that assists a Do It Yourself (DIY) handyman in carrying out DIY projects. The assistant, based on various AI and dialog management capabilities, generates a sequence of detailed instructions that users may just follow or adapt according to their individual preferences. It features explanation capabilities as well as pro-active support based on communication with the user as well as with the involved tools. We report on the project’s main achievements, including the findings of various empirical studies conducted in various development stages of the prototype.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Evaluating Knowledge-Based Assistance for DIY
    (Mensch und Computer 2018 - Workshopband, 2018) Schiller, Marvin; Behnke, Gregor; Bercher, Pascal; Kraus, Matthias; Dorna, Michael; Richter, Felix; Biundo, Susanne; Glimm, Birte; Minker, Wolfgang
    We report on the development of a companion system incorporating hierarchical planning, ontology-based knowledge modeling and multimodal cloud-based dialog. As an application scenario, we consider the domain of do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement involving the use of power tools. To test and – if necessary – adjust the developed techniques, user studies are conducted throughout the development phase. We present fundamental considerations and open questions encountered when testing the implemented prototype with potential users and report first observations from a current study.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Hybrid Planning - From Theory to Practice
    (Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2017, 2018) Bercher, Pascal
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Interview with David E. Smith
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 30, No. 1, 2016) Bercher, Pascal; Höller, Daniel
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Special Issue on Companion Technologies
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 30, No. 1, 2016) Biundo, Susanne; Höller, Daniel; Bercher, Pascal
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    The PANDA Framework for Hierarchical Planning
    (KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 35, No. 0, 2021) Höller, Daniel; Behnke, Gregor; Bercher, Pascal; Biundo, Susanne
    During the last years, much progress has been made in hierarchical planning towards domain-independent systems that come with sophisticated techniques to solve planning problems instead of relying on advice in the input model. Several of these novel methods have been integrated into the PANDA framework , which is a software system to reason about hierarchical planning tasks. Besides solvers for planning problems based on plan space search, progression search, and translation to propositional logic, it also includes techniques for related problems like plan repair, plan and goal recognition, or plan verification. These various techniques share a common infrastructure, like e.g. a standard input language or components for grounding and reachability analysis. This article gives an overview over the PANDA framework, introduces the basic techniques from a high level perspective, and surveys the literature describing the diverse components in detail.