Towel:Towards an Intelligent ToDo List

Ken ConleyJim CarpenterSRI International

AAAI Spring Symposium 2007

Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes

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

Organize infoManage time andcommitments

Perform tasks

ProcedureLearners

Execution Monitor& Predictor

Task ManagerSPARK

Time ManagerPTIME

Process Models

Task Explainer

Team Coordinator

Advice Preferences

Execution Monitor& Predictor

TaskManager

TimeManager

Process Models

Task Explainer

Effectors

Sensors

Advice PreferencesPreferences

Task MmgtUI

Activity Recognizer

StateEstimator

Task Management Framework

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

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

Instant Messaging (IM) analogy

Chat interactions I

Soliciting input (automatically generated forms)

Convey messages about task status:

Chat interactions II

Standard task buttons, e.g. ‘Why’

Chat interactions III

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

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.

Questions?

conley@ai.sri.com