Human-Computer Interaction with an Intelligence Virtual

Defence R&D Canada has undertaken an R&D initiative to investigate and develop Intelligent Software Assistant (ISA) technologies to support intelligence analysts in sense making tasks. One aspect of the project is related to the Human-Computer Interaction between the virtual assistant and the users. Two key requirements are to support a dialogue between the ISA and the analyst(s), and to optimize the presentation of the results. In order to address these requirements, a number of technologies need to be exploited, including smart room environments, multimodal interaction, adaptive interfaces, augmented cognition, avatars and storytelling. Author