An intelligent personal assistant for task and time management
Karen L. Myers, Pauline M. Berry, Jim Blythe, Ken Conley, Melinda T. Gervasio, Deborah L. McGuinness, David N. Morley, Avi Pfeffer, Martha E. Pollack, Milind Tambe · 2007
We describe an intelligent personal assistant that has been developed to aid a busy knowledge worker in managing time commitments and performing tasks. The design of the system was motivated by the complementary objectives of (1) relieving the user of routine tasks, thus allowing her to focus on tasks that critically require human problem-solving skills, and (2) intervening in situations where cognitive overload leads to oversights or mistakes by the user. The system draws on a diverse set of AI technologies that are linked within a Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agent system. Although the system provides a number of automated functions, the overall framework is highly user centric in