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Towards intelligent assistance for to-do lists

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Yolanda Gil,

Varun RatnakarAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 329 - 332

https://doi.org/10.1145/1378773.1378822

Published: 13 January 2008 Publication History

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Assisting users with to-do lists presents new challenges for intelligent user interfaces. This paper presents a detailed analysis of to-do list entries jotted by users of a system that automates tasks for users that we would like to extend to assist users with their to-do entries. We also present four distinct stages of interpretation of to-do entries that can be accomplished and evaluated separately. A system that has good performance in any of these four stages can provide intelligent assistance that is useful to users.

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IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

January 2008

458 pages

ISBN:9781595939876

DOI:10.1145/1378773

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