Telecons are on the second Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. Eastern.
Antitrust and IP awareness
- This is a TECHNICAL committee. Please familiarize yourself with these antitrust and IP guidelines for IEEE meetings.
- Report the existence of any patent claims that might be essential to implementers of any proposed standards (Potentially Essential Patents):
- Speak up now, or
- Report any essential patents of which you are personally aware to the Chair, or
- Cause a Letter of Assurance to be submitted to the IEEE-SA
Agenda (updated 14 November 2019, 0830 hrs):
- Roll Call of Working Group Members
- Please visit the roll call document and update your attendance.
Old Business
- Repeat Announcements:
- Next meetings— 2nd Thursday each month at 10 a.m. eastern (Dec. 12)
- Second AIS Workshop documentation
- Proceedings have been compiled and the latest draft is available at: https://site.ieee.org/sagroups-2247-1/?p=536
- Officer Reports:
- Vice Chair (Eric Domeshek)
- Secretary Report (Drew Hampton)
- Treasurer Report (Jody Cockroft)
- Collaboration – ICICLE Report (Avron Barr)
- Collaboration – IEEE 9274 Report (Andy Johnson)
New Business:
- Global Outreach
- 2020 HCII AIS Conference (19–24 July, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Conference website here.
- Many deadlines are tomorrow
- If you are heading up sessions and are short of 5 papers in your session, please consider writing a paper yourself as a lead in to the topical area covered by the session.
- I/ITSEC (2–6 December, Orlando, Florida)
- Conference website here.
- Update to our IITSEC-IEEE Track Proposal: our proposal for four special events was approved in March 2019
- AIS Conceptual Modeling Special Event (COI1, Tuesday, 3 December, 1400-1530, Room S329)
- Goal: Expose the I/ITSEC community to IEEE learning technology activities related to modeling a representative AIS and standardization terms, functions, and relationships
- Format: Informational briefings and panel debate
- Discussion Topic: Evaluate and critique the importance of essential AIS functions
- Participants: (all confirmed) – Dr. Robert Sottilare, Soar Technology, Inc. & IEEE 2247 WG chair, moderator; Dr. Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis and China Central Normal University; Dr. Andrew Hampton, University of Memphis; Dr. Randolph Jones, Soar Technology, Inc.
- AIS Interoperability Standards Special Event (COI3, Wednesday, 4 December, 0830-1000, Room S329)
- Goal: Expose the I/ITSEC community to IEEE learning technology activities related to standardization of components and/or interaction data shared by AISs
- Format: Informational briefings and panel debate
- Discussion Topic: Evaluate and critique how interoperability standards might influence AIS markets
- Participants: (all confirmed) – Dr. Keith Brawner, Army Futures Command, moderator; Dr. Roger Azevedo, University of Central Florida Learning Sciences Cluster; Dr. Wink Bennett, US Air Force Research Laboratory; Mr. Richard Tong or Dr. KP Thai, Yixue Learning
- Recommended Practices for AIS Evaluation Special Event (COI5, Wednesday, 4 December, 1600-1730, Room S329)
- Goal: Expose the I/ITSEC community to IEEE learning technology activities related to the development of recommended practices to fairly evaluate AIS capabilities
- Format: Informational briefings and panel debate
- Discussion Topic: Evaluate and critique descriptors that are needed to inform AIS buyers about different AIS capabilities
- Participants: (3 of 4 confirmed) – Dr. Eric Domeshek, Stottler Henke, Inc., moderator; Dr. Natalie Steinhauser, NAWCTSD; Dr. Sowmya Ramachandran, Stottler-Henke, Inc.; Dr. Louise Yarnell, SRI International
- Learning Engineering Special Event (COI4, Wednesday, 4 December, 1030-1200, Room S329)
- Goal: Expose the I/ITSEC community to IEEE learning technology activities and develop recommendations regarding learning engineering as an academic and career field
- Format: Informational briefings and panel debate
- Discussion Topic: Evaluate and critique next steps for developing learning engineering as both an academic and career field
- Participants: (all confirmed) – Mr. Avron Barr, IEEE Learning Technologies Standards Committee, moderator; Mr. Shelley Blake-Plock, Yet Analytics; Dr. Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis; Dr. Dylan Schmorrow, Soar Technology
- AIS Conceptual Modeling Special Event (COI1, Tuesday, 3 December, 1400-1530, Room S329)
- 33rd Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS–33) (May 17–20, 2020, North Miami Beach, FL)
- Call for Papers for Intelligent Learning Technology track
- Deadline this coming Monday
- 2020 HCII AIS Conference (19–24 July, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Subgroups
- Leaders have established meetings. Everyone should have received notifications via email.
- Regional Leaders
- Conceptual Modeling Subgroup Chair—Anne Knowles
- Bob is now reviewing/editing a draft from the subgroup and once my comments are addressed, we can send out the updated draft to the whole working group.
- Americas Lead for AIS Conceptual Modeling—KP Thai, Squirrel AI Learning by Yixue Group
- Asia-Pacific Lead for Conceptual Modeling—Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis & Central China Normal University
- Europe-Africa Lead for Conceptual Modeling—TBD
- Interoperability Subgroup Chair—SEEKING REPLACEMENT
- Meetings held at https://zoom.us/j/242790803
- We welcome industry and institution members to sponsor development efforts for interoperability implementations.
- Americas Lead for AIS Interoperability—Keith Brawner, US Army Futures Command
- Asia-Pacific Lead for AIS Interoperability—Qiguang Lin
- Europe-Africa Lead for AIS Interoperability—TBD
- Recommended Practices for Evaluation Subgroup Chair—Shelly Blake-Plock, Yet Analytics
- Milestones and schedule:
- Mid-Nov Deadline: Front matter: Intro and Purpose
- Expectations
• Mid Nov: Recommendations / Reference Models, etc
• Mid Nov: Formal Draft Editing to Start
- Meetings held at https://join.me/IEEE-ICICLE
- Americas Lead for AIS Evaluation Practices—Louise Yarnall, SRI
- Asia-Pacific Lead for AIS Evaluation Practices—TBD
- Europe-Africa Lead for AIS Evaluation Practices—TBD
- Milestones and schedule:
- Conceptual Modeling Subgroup Chair—Anne Knowles
