Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation


 
Automating Repetitive Tasks Through Learning User Habits

Jean-David Ruvini
LIRMM
Montpellier, France
ruvini@lirmm.fr

Users of interactive environments spend a lot of time performing the same actions over and over again. In this presentation we will describe technologies we have developed to design adaptive interfaces that draw on machine learning to learn a user's habits and afterward offer to complete repetitive tasks on her behalf. In this framework a key issue is to design an interface that disrupts the user's work as little as possible and makes the right suggestion at the right moment. We will focus on that issue, explaining what makes the difficulties of the learning task and how we have overcome them. As a case study we will describe an interface agent we have designed for a programming environment.


Date: Thurs., Dec 14

Time: 4:15-5:30PM

Place: Cordura 100


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