A Personalized Calendar Assistant

Abstract

Many calendar tools have become available to organize, display, and track a user's commitments. However, most people still spend a considerable amount of time personally organizing meetings and managing the constant changes and adjustments that must be made to their schedules. Our goal is to provide the technology necessary to manage an individual individual's calendar. The resulting agent will let the user retain control of decisions when necessary and relinquish control to the assistant at other times. Meanwhile, the agent will be sensitive to the user user's wishes and preferences. The key elements in our approach are the creation of a process framework that captures possible interactions with users and other agents, learning technology to capture the user user's preferences, and advisability to enable direct instruction by the user at various levels of abstraction. As the system improves its model of the user over time, reliance on user interaction will decrease.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA460158

Entities

People

  • Karen Myers
  • Ken Nitz
  • Melinda Gervasio
  • Pauline M. Berry
  • Tomas E. Uribe

Organizations

  • SRI International

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Autonomy
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Case Studies
  • Environment
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Negotiations
  • Probability
  • Standards

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