INFORMATION INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE FOR AGENT-BASED COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK SYSTEM

We propose an information integration architecture for a man-machine i nterface to construct a new agent-based Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) system. The system acts as a clerk in cooperative work gi ving users the advantage of using cooperative work space. The system a llows users to do their work in the style of an ordinary meeting becau se spontaneous expressions of speech and gestures by users are detecte d by sensors so that they can be integrated with a task model at sever al levels to create suitable responses in a man-machine interface. As a result, users can dedicate themselves to mutually understand other m eeting members with no awareness of direction to the CSCW system. In t his paper, we describe the whole system and its information integratio n architecture for the man-machine interface including, the principle of functions, the current status of the system and future directions.