Monday April 18 4:00 - 4:50 PM Covell 216 Tessa Lau Research Staff Member T.J. Watson Research IBM
Intelligent interfaces: Smart Tasks and Email Activity Management UIs have proven to be a fertile ground for applying artificial intelligence techniques to build smarter, more usable interfaces. In this talk, I present two ongoing projects that illustrate the possibilities of using machine learning in the user interface. Smart Tasks aims to help end users automate repetitive tasks in Lotus Workplace using a programming by demonstration paradigm. Users demonstrate how to complete one or more instances of the task, and the system learns how to automate the remainder. Our Smart Editor demo shows how this technology applied to word processing automates repetitive style formatting tasks in documents. Email-based Activity Management aims to mitigate email overload by automatically recognizing business processes conducted over email, and tracking one's status when participating in multiple processes simultaneously. By recognizing common patterns in email messages, EAM is able to infer a finite-state-machine model of the process, and employ this model to categorize incoming email as steps in the process. Biography Tessa Lau is a Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, where she pursues research in intelligent user interfaces: using artificial intelligence to improve human-computer interaction by building tools that adapt and learn from human use. Before joining IBM, Tessa completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Washington in 2001. In addition to her research, Tessa's interests include gadgets, games, textiles, and encouraging women in technology. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
