What
is I-MINDS?
I-MINDS is a software solution to
intelligent management of virtual classrooms or groups,
to support real-time and offline activities by facilitating
group work, seamlessly tailoring to individual user needs,
and backgrounds, and assisting group moderation and management.
Its technology is built upon intelligent software agents
that interact on behalf of the users autonomously. In
addition to collecting data and information of the users'
activities and preferences, the agents also make decisions
such as evaluating and ranking questions, supporting group
discussions, match-making compatible group members, and
learning useful heuristics to better support the users.
Primary Applications
One of our applications is focus
group support systems. We consider a focus group process
as having one group moderator and 10-20 members in a focus
group. A focus group process could involve 4-5 different
focus groups at different sessions, moderated by the same
person. A support system using I-MINDS will be able to
support the leader in managing the group discussions -
pointing out the members who are not contributing, focusing
on developing ideas, assimilating information among the
group, pursuing unique ideas, and so on.
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