  Some of my recent work has been to prototype useful/intelligent interfaces for Bob Doorenbos' <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/bobd/shopbot-e.html">ShopBot</a>. Rather than try to build our own interface, our plan is to somehow integrate with the interfaces of various on-line stores by building a "Shopping Assistant." One simple assistant we've built is a Mac application that automatically reads and parses shopping baskets in order to determine what products the user is interested in.<p>
