Time Management with Adaptive Reminders: Two Studies and Their Design Implications

Weber, J. S. and Yorke-Smith, N. Time Management with Adaptive Reminders: Two Studies and Their Design Implications. Working notes of CHI'08 Workshop: Usable Artificial Intelligence, Florence, Italy, April 2008.

Abstract: Effective time management is fundamental for office workers with crowded calendars and numerous constraints and demands on their time. Design of tools to assist such users must account for varying preferences over the type and amount of support desired. We describe efforts to elicit these preferences as part of the iterative design process of an AI-based mixed-initiative calendaring tool. We (1) establish the specific types of assistance in which target users expressed interest, and (2) highlight our findings regarding the scheduling practices and reminding preferences of these users that in turn motivate the redesign and enhancement of our system.

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