Friday April 8 Covell 216 11:00 - 11:50 AM Brian P. Bailey Assistant Professor Computer Science University of Illinois-Urbana
A Method and System for Intelligent Interruption Management When multi-tasking among proactive systems, users often experience interruption overload, which causes considerable, negative impact on their performance and affective state. This burgeoning epidemic of interruption occurs not only on the desktop, but also in control rooms, aviation cockpits, and in-vehicle displays. In this talk, I will discuss our ongoing theoretical and systems development work aimed at mitigating the negative impact of interruption. Our theoretical work has produced a systematic method for predicting opportune (least disruptive) moments for interrupting users engaged in tasks. In our systems development work, we have made significant progress towards developing a theoretically-grounded system that automates the process of deferring information until opportune moments during task execution. Our work links theories of interruption from Cognitive Psychology with building interruption management systems in Computer Science. Biography Dr. Bailey earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1993, an M.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1997, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2002. Dr. Bailey has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois-Urbana since 2002. His research interests include developing computational tools that better support human creativity and storytelling, interfaces for pervasive computing, and developing computational systems that better manage human attention. Dr. Bailey's multi-disciplinary research efforts have been formally recognized with affiliate academic appointments in Aviation Psychology, the Beckman Institute, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
