From daria at cs.cmu.edu Fri Apr 17 09:26:07 2009 From: daria at cs.cmu.edu (Daria Sorokina) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:26:07 -0400 Subject: [Research] birthday cake after lunch today Message-ID: <00e301c9bf60$111defb0$3359cf10$@cmu.edu> Hi all, I have a birthday today, so if you stop by my office (NSH 3123) some time between 1:15 and 2:00, there is a big chance you'll get a piece of a cake ;-) See you, Daria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Wed Apr 22 02:46:32 2009 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:46:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Research] Auton Lab meeting on Tuesday April 28th Message-ID: <2566.125.214.188.151.1240382792.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> Dear Autonians, On Tuesday we will have a guest speaker: Xinlong Bao. Xinlong is a soon-to-graduate Ph.D. student in Tom Dietterich's team at Oregon State University. Please see below the abstract of the talk and the short bio of the speaker. We will meet at the usual place and time. Besides giving his talk at our noon meeting, Xinlong will be available for one-on-one meetings between approx. 9am and 3pm. Please contact Karen Widmaier to get your name on the schedule. *Title of the talk*: TaskTracer: Intelligent Assistants for Supporting Multitasking Knowledge Workers *Abstract*: Knowledge workers are multi-taskers. Their work lives can be divided into multiple on-going projects or activities (we call them "tasks"), and their time at the desktop interleaves work on these tasks. However, existing desktop user interfaces do not have any notion of coherent tasks. The TaskTracer system seeks to support these workers by organizing the files, folders, contact information, calendar appointments, and web sites (collectively known as "resources") according to the tasks that they support. To use TaskTracer, the user defines a hierarchy of tasks and declares to TaskTracer what current task he/she is working on at each point in time. TaskTracer instruments Microsoft Windows and Office to gather data on the resources that are accessed by the user and associates them with the currently-declared task. It then provides tasks-related assistance through (a) the TaskExplorer (which makes it easy for the user to return to previously-accessed resources), (b) the FolderPredictor (which predicts the relevant folder for Open and SaveAs actions). Over the past year, we conducted a user study at Intel to evaluate the hypotheses underlying the design of TaskTracer and to evaluate alternative designs for the Folder Predictor. This talk to describe these hypotheses and present the results of the study. The results show strong support for task-oriented user interfaces. *Short bio*: Xinlong Bao is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer science at Oregon State University. He received his Master's and Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and 2001, respectively. During the summer of 2008, he was an intern at IBM Research. His primary research interests are in the field of machine learning, where he focuses on intelligent predictions based on user behaviors, recommender systems, and integrating learning and reasoning. From krw at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Apr 27 08:55:15 2009 From: krw at andrew.cmu.edu (Karen Widmaier) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:55:15 -0400 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab meeting on Tuesday April 28th In-Reply-To: <2566.125.214.188.151.1240382792.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> References: <2566.125.214.188.151.1240382792.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <00fa01c9c737$690984d0$3b1c8e70$@cmu.edu> Please see below about scheduling a time to meet with Xinlong Bao: Karen Dear Autonians, On Tuesday we will have a guest speaker: Xinlong Bao. Xinlong is a soon-to-graduate Ph.D. student in Tom Dietterich's team at Oregon State University. Please see below the abstract of the talk and the short bio of the speaker. We will meet at the usual place and time. Besides giving his talk at our noon meeting, Xinlong will be available for one-on-one meetings between approx. 9am and 3pm. Please contact Karen Widmaier to get your name on the schedule. *Title of the talk*: TaskTracer: Intelligent Assistants for Supporting Multitasking Knowledge Workers *Abstract*: Knowledge workers are multi-taskers. Their work lives can be divided into multiple on-going projects or activities (we call them "tasks"), and their time at the desktop interleaves work on these tasks. However, existing desktop user interfaces do not have any notion of coherent tasks. The TaskTracer system seeks to support these workers by organizing the files, folders, contact information, calendar appointments, and web sites (collectively known as "resources") according to the tasks that they support. To use TaskTracer, the user defines a hierarchy of tasks and declares to TaskTracer what current task he/she is working on at each point in time. TaskTracer instruments Microsoft Windows and Office to gather data on the resources that are accessed by the user and associates them with the currently-declared task. It then provides tasks-related assistance through (a) the TaskExplorer (which makes it easy for the user to return to previously-accessed resources), (b) the FolderPredictor (which predicts the relevant folder for Open and SaveAs actions). Over the past year, we conducted a user study at Intel to evaluate the hypotheses underlying the design of TaskTracer and to evaluate alternative designs for the Folder Predictor. This talk to describe these hypotheses and present the results of the study. The results show strong support for task-oriented user interfaces. *Short bio*: Xinlong Bao is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer science at Oregon State University. He received his Master's and Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and 2001, respectively. During the summer of 2008, he was an intern at IBM Research. His primary research interests are in the field of machine learning, where he focuses on intelligent predictions based on user behaviors, recommender systems, and integrating learning and reasoning. _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research at autonlab.org https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research From awd at cs.cmu.edu Mon Apr 27 08:56:39 2009 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:56:39 -0400 Subject: [Research] Please schedule a meeting with Xinlong if you can (Re: Auton Lab meeting on Tuesday April 28th) In-Reply-To: <2566.125.214.188.151.1240382792.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> References: <2566.125.214.188.151.1240382792.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <49F5AB87.2030207@cs.cmu.edu> Hello, I'd like to remind about the guest talk tomorrow. Xinlong is looking for a job and we might consider him for a post-doc position in the Lab. For this reason I would like to ask that if you can, could you please meet with him while he is in town. His schedule so far is quite empty so far. Thanks Artur Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Dear Autonians, > > On Tuesday we will have a guest speaker: Xinlong Bao. > Xinlong is a soon-to-graduate Ph.D. student in Tom Dietterich's > team at Oregon State University. > > Please see below the abstract of the talk and the short bio of > the speaker. > > We will meet at the usual place and time. > > Besides giving his talk at our noon meeting, Xinlong will > be available for one-on-one meetings between approx. 9am and 3pm. > Please contact Karen Widmaier to get your name on the schedule. > > *Title of the talk*: > TaskTracer: Intelligent Assistants for Supporting Multitasking Knowledge > Workers > > *Abstract*: > Knowledge workers are multi-taskers. Their work lives can be divided > into multiple on-going projects or activities (we call them "tasks"), > and their time at the desktop interleaves work on these > tasks. However, existing desktop user interfaces do not have any > notion of coherent tasks. The TaskTracer system seeks to support these > workers by organizing the files, folders, contact information, > calendar appointments, and web sites (collectively known as > "resources") according to the tasks that they support. To use > TaskTracer, the user defines a hierarchy of tasks and declares to > TaskTracer what current task he/she is working on at each point in > time. TaskTracer instruments Microsoft Windows and Office to gather > data on the resources that are accessed by the user and associates > them with the currently-declared task. It then provides tasks-related > assistance through (a) the TaskExplorer (which makes it easy for the > user to return to previously-accessed resources), (b) the > FolderPredictor (which predicts the relevant folder for Open and > SaveAs actions). > Over the past year, we conducted a user study at Intel to evaluate the > hypotheses underlying the design of TaskTracer and to evaluate > alternative designs for the Folder Predictor. This talk to describe > these hypotheses and present the results of the study. The results > show strong support for task-oriented user interfaces. > > *Short bio*: > Xinlong Bao is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer science at Oregon State > University. He received his Master's and Bachelor's degree from the > University of Science and Technology of China in 2004 and 2001, > respectively. During the summer of 2008, he was an intern at IBM Research. > His primary research interests are in the field of machine learning, > where he focuses on intelligent predictions based on user behaviors, > recommender systems, and integrating learning and reasoning. > > > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research > > From awd at cs.cmu.edu Mon Apr 27 15:25:00 2009 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:25:00 -0400 Subject: [Research] Please schedule a meeting with Xinlong if you can (Re: Auton Lab meeting on Tuesday April 28th) In-Reply-To: <49F5DE6E.9090703@cs.cmu.edu> References: <2566.125.214.188.151.1240382792.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> <49F5AB87.2030207@cs.cmu.edu> <49F5DE6E.9090703@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <49F6068C.20605@cs.cmu.edu> It is noon. Artur Michael J. Baysek wrote: > Is Noon or 11:30 the normal time? A couple of us were not sure... > > > -- > Michael J. Baysek, Systems Analyst > Carnegie Mellon University - Auton Lab > www.cmu.edu - www.autonlab.org > 412-268-8939 > > >