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.