TaskTracer: a desktop environment to support multi-tasking knowledge workers
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This paper reports on TaskTracer --- a software system being designed to help highly multitasking knowledge workers rapidly locate, discover, and reuse past processes they used to successfully complete tasks. The system monitors users' interaction with a computer, collects detailed records of users' activities and resources accessed, associates (automatically or with users' assistance) each interaction event with a particular task, enables users to access records of past activities and quickly restore task contexts. We present a novel Publisher-Subscriber architecture for collecting and processing users' activity data, describe several different user interfaces tried with TaskTracer, and discuss the possibility of applying machine learning techniques to recognize/predict users' tasks.
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Previous approaches such as TaskTracer, Scalable Fabric, GroupBar and Mylyn allow the capturing and presentation of task context but require the user to manually group related artifacts or manually state the start and end of a task, reducing chances of long-term adoption.
“While previous approaches, such as TaskTracer [7], Scalable Fabric [78], GroupBar [9] and Mylyn [6], allow the capturing and presentation of task context, they require the user to manually group related artifacts or manually state the start and end of a task, thus, reducing chances of long-term adoption.”
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- Authors
- Dragunov, A. N., Dietterich, T. G., Johnsrude, K., McLaughlin, M., Li, L., & Herlocker, J. L.
- Affiliations
- Oregon State University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2005-01-10
- Pages
- 75-82
- OpenAlex
- W2144266514
- Cited by
- 240
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 38.92
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Keywords
- knowledge workers, multitasking, process reuse, user activity monitoring, user interface, task identification, task prediction, machine learning
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