Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!aurora!labrea!agate!ucbvax!KL.SRI.COM!KARNICKY From: KARNICKY@KL.SRI.COM (Joe Karnicky) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: seeking imbeddable inference system Message-ID: <12371202150.13.KARNICKY@KL.SRI.COM> Date: 1 Feb 88 09:23:04 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Approved: ailist@kl.sri.com A friend of mine creates programs and devices to enable severely handicapped individuals to interact with computers (IBM PC compatibles because of financial considerations). He and I have spent time discussing possible ways that knowledge based programming (my own area of practice) can be usefully incorporated into these programs. For example, he has a program that repeatedly scans an array of icons. At a signal from the user, an icon is selected and a corresponding message is output - possibly through a speech synthesizer. One possibility is to have the icon selection generate a fact or goal into an inference system. The final output from this system would then be "customized", i.e. modified by the context of the interaction. (for example, the time of day, the mood or condition of the user, the current activity etc.) Now, to implement this economically what we would like to have is a simple, cheap ($100), IMBEDDABLE inference system. Something on the level of turboprolog would be adequate, except I'm told that it pretty much insists on being boss. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Joe Karnicky -------