Towards intelligent assistance for to-do lists

ABSTRACT

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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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.m Miscellaneous

Keywords:
automated assistance, knowledge acquisition, knowledge collection from web volunteers, natural language interpretation, office assistants, to-do lists, user interfaces