Temporal task footprinting: Identifying routine tasks by their temporal patterns

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 281-284

  Brdiczka, Oliver ^a   Su, Norman Makoto ^b   Begole, James Bo ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Routine task representation; T patterns; Task footprint; Temporal patterns

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FOOTPRINTING; RECURRENT PATTERNS; TASK REPRESENTATION; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

DECISION TREES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77951096119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1719970.1720011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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