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- Dari Trendafilov
- Roderick Murray-Smith
- D. Polani
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Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |
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Event | CHI 2015 Workshop on Principles, Techniques and Perspectives on Optimization and HCI - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 19 Apr 2015 → … |
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Workshop | CHI 2015 Workshop on Principles, Techniques and Perspectives on Optimization and HCI |
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Country/Territory | Korea, Republic of |
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City | Seoul |
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Period | 19/04/15 → … |
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Abstract
We propose a novel metric for optimizing human-computer interfaces, based on the information-theoretic capacity of empowerment, a task-independent universal utility measure. Empowerment measures, for agent-environment systems with stochastic transitions, how much influence, which can be sensed by the agent sensors, an agent has on its environment. It captures the uncertainty in human-machine systems arising from different sources (i.e. noise, delays, errors, etc.) as a single quantity. We suggest the potential empowerment has as an objective optimality criterion in user interface design optimization, contributing to the more solid theoretical foundations of HCI.
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