Towel: Towards an Intelligent ToDo List

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TowelTowards an Intelligent ToDo List

• Ken Conley
• Jim Carpenter
• SRI International
• AAAI Spring Symposium 2007

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Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes
Manage time and commitments
Organize info
Perform tasks

• CALO supports a busy knowledge worker
• Understands the office world and your role in
  it

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Task Management Framework
Task Mmgt UI
Team Coordinator
Advice
Preferences
Advice
Preferences
Preferences
Activity Recognizer
Time
Task
Time Manager
Task Manager
Manager
Manager
PTIME
SPARK
State Estimator
Process Models
Process Models
Procedure Learners
Execution Monitor
Execution Monitor
Task Explainer
Task Explainer
Predictor
Predictor
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Interaction needs

• Help with tracking commitments
• Provide user access to task execution
  technologies
• Communicate with user
• solicit parameters, inform user of status
  updates, etc
• Integrate with rich platform of task management
  capabilities
• task explanation, activity recognition, time
  management, and other technologies

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Towel Todo List Task Dialog

• Unified interface for task dispatch, delegation,
  viewing, organization, and explanation
• Supports user tasks, CALO tasks, and tasks
  delegated to other team members
• Combines to do list view of tasks with
  task-specific dialog window

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Instant Messaging (IM) analogy
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Chat interactions I

• Soliciting input (automatically generated forms)
• Convey messages about task status

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Chat interactions II

• Standard task buttons, e.g. Why

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Chat interactions III

• Rich input widgets for specific tasks (e.g.
  scheduling)

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Building on previous work

• Bellotti, V. Dalal, B. Good, N. Bobrow, D.
  Ducheneaut, N. What a to-do studies of task
  management towards the design of a personal task
  list manager, CHI 2004.
• Rich, C. Sidner, C. Lesh, N. Garland, A.
  Booth, S. Chimani, M. DiamondHelp A New
  Interaction Design for Networked Home Appliances,
  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10(2)., 2006.

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Questions?

• conley_at_ai.sri.com