TaskGenies: Automatically providing action plans helps people complete tasks

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kokkalis, Nicolas ^a   Köhn, Thomas ^a   Huebner, Johannes ^a   Lee, Moontae ^a   Schulze, Florian ^a   Klemmer, Scott R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; COST EFFECTIVE; SIMILARITY ALGORITHM;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CONCRETES;

EID: 84887831549     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2513560     Document Type: Article

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