[Research] Please schedule a meeting with Xinlong if you can (Re: Auton Lab meeting on Tuesday April 28th)

[Artur Dubrawski]

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.
>
>
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