TaskTracer: a desktop environment to support multi-tasking knowledge workers

The active badge location system

Want, R., Hopper, A., Falcão, V., & Gibbons, J. (1992) · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · doi:10.1145/128756.128759 · Cited by 3,768

User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction

Anderson, N. S., Norman, D. A., & Draper, S. W. (1988) · The American Journal of Psychology · doi:10.2307/1422802 · Cited by 1,857

A diary study of task switching and interruptions

Czerwinski, M., Horvitz, E., & Wilhite, S. (2004) · Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/985692.985715 · Cited by 830

"Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres

González, V. M., & Mark, G. (2004) · Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/985692.985707 · Cited by 715

The Scope and Importance of Human Interruption in Human-Computer Interaction Design

McFarlane, D. C., & Latorella, K. A. (2002) · Human–Computer Interaction · doi:10.1207/s15327051hci1701_1 · Cited by 536

Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface

Henderson, D. A., & Card, S. K. (1986) · ACM Transactions on Graphics · doi:10.1145/24054.24056 · Cited by 525

Extracting usability information from user interface events

Hilbert, D. M., & Redmiles, D. (2000) · ACM Computing Surveys · doi:10.1145/371578.371593 · Cited by 478

The psychology of personal information management

Lansdale, M. W. (1988) · Applied Ergonomics · doi:10.1016/0003-6870(88)90199-8 · Cited by 421

Taking email to task

Bellotti, V. M. E., Ducheneaut, N., Howard, M., & Smith, I. (2003) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/642611.642672 · Cited by 370

Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data

Freeman, E., & Gelernter, D. (1996) · SGMD · doi:10.1145/381854.381893 · Cited by 356

Text categorization and similarity analysis: similarity measure, literature review

Fowke, M., Hinze, A., & Heese, R. (2013) · Research Commons (University of Waikato)

Leveraging context for file search and organization

Noble, B. D., & Shah, S. A. (2009) · Deep Blue (University of Michigan)

Plateforme de filtrage contextuel des interactions médiées

Joly, A. (2009) · HAL

Recovery from Interruptions: Knowledge Workers' Strategies, Failures and Envisioned Solutions

Stumpf, S., Burnett, M., Dietterich, T. G., Johnsrude, K., & Herlocker, J. L. (2005) · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · doi:10.21236/ada471248

Getting to the Information you Already have

Rajaram, V., Stumpf, S., Burnett, M., Dragunov, A. N., Wick, E., Lynn, J., Johnsrude, K., & Herlocker, J. L. (2005) · doi:10.21236/ada471260

Browsing for Information on the Web and in the File System

Seifert, E., Stumpf, S., Herlocker, J. L., & Wynn, E. (2007) · doi:10.21236/ada471204

The TaskTracker System.

Stumpf, S., Bao, X., Dragunov, A. N., Dietterich, T. G., Herlocker, J. L., Johnsrude, K., Li, L., & Shen, J. (2005) · National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Object-oriented Information Filtering System for Ubiquitous Environment

Matsutsuji, T., Wang, Y., Hijikata, Y., & Nishida, S. (2010) · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · doi:10.1541/ieejeiss.130.852

Task-Centered Context Manager for Customer Relationship Management Systems

Wu, M., & Bhowmick, A. (2012) · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · doi:10.1177/1071181312561107

BlackTie: Injecting elements of formality into enterprise social software

Bolinger, J., Ramanathan, J., & Ramnath, R. (2010) · International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS) · doi:10.1109/cts.2010.5478528

Extracting document relationships by analyzing user's activity history

Karasudani, A., Iwata, S., Matsumoto, T., & Aritake, H. (2013) · ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) · doi:10.1145/2451176.2451208

The Leyline: A Comparative Approach to Designing a Graphical Provenance-Based Search UI

Ghorashi, S., & Jensen, C. (2013) · Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) · doi:10.1109/hicss.2013.533

Capturing context and mental state of knowledge workers

Koldijk, S. (2012) · Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX) · doi:10.1145/2362724.2362786

Recent Shortcuts: Providing Quick Access to Recently Used Computer Objects to Support Shared Activities

Lin, J. W., Tang, J. C., Whittaker, S., & Drews, C. (2006)

PersonalWeb

Guerreiro, J., Gomes, J., & Gonçalves, D. J. V. (2012) · Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR) · doi:10.1145/2162102.2162107

Context based resource classification using open directory project categories

Ansari, M. M., & Karim, M. S. (2012) · International Conference on Emerging Technologies · doi:10.1109/icet.2012.6375442

A basic study on information filtering method dealing with user goal

Matsutsuji, T., Wang, Y., Hijikata, Y., & Nishida, S. (2008) · Conference proceedings/Conference proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics · doi:10.1109/icsmc.2008.4811613

All in a Day's Work: User Interface Design for Multitasking, Resource Organization, and Collaboration in Knowledge Work

Voida, S. (2006)

On improving application utility prediction

Hailpern, J. M., Jitkoff, N., Subida, J., & Karahalios, K. G. (2010) · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · doi:10.1145/1753846.1753995

Title: Activity Recognition in Desktop Environments

Dietterich, T. G. (2009)

NavTracks : helping developers navigate source code

Elves, R. (2005) · UVic’s Research and Learning Repository (University of Victoria)

A Case for Usage Tracking to Relate Digital Objects

Pedersen, E. R., & Spence, J. (2008)

Document DNA: content centric provenance data tracking in documents

Rinck, M., Hinze, A., Bainbridge, D., & Jones, S. (2014)

Prediction and Discovery of Users' Desktop Behavior.

Madani, O., Bui, H., & Yeh, E. (2009)

KI-LEARN: Knowledge-Intensive Learning Methods for Knowledge-Rich/Data-Poor Domains

Dietterich, T. G., Restificar, A. C., Tadepalli, P. V., D’Ambrosio, B., Herlocker, J., Fern, A., Altendorf, E. E., Natarajan, S., Shen, J., & Bao, X. (2006) · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)

Towards Automatic Linkage of Knowledge Worker’s Claims with Associated Evidence from Screenshots

Jones, P., Medd, D., Ramakrishnan, S., Shah, R., Keyton, J., & Samatova, N. F. (2017) · IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService) · doi:10.1109/bigdataservice.2017.21

Using task context to improve programmer productivity

Kersten, M. A., & Murphy, G. C. (2006)

A Decision-Theoretic Model of Assistance - Evaluation, Extensions and Open Problems.

Natarajan, S., Judah, K., Tadepalli, P. V., & Fern, A. (2007)

Cognitive Work Analysis: Investigating Social Aspects of Work with a Decision Support System

Henricsson, M. (2017) · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

A family of large margin linear classifiers and its application in dynamic environments

Shen, J., & Dietterich, T. G. (2009) · Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal · doi:10.1002/sam.10055

One of Us: a Multiplayer Web-based Game for Digital Evidence Acquisition of Scripts through Crowdsourcing

Kalokyri, V., Borgida, A. T., & Marian, A. (2023) · Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval · doi:10.1145/3576840.3578271

AI Assistants in the Workplace: Goal-Oriented Recommendations Using LLM

Perera, R., Gendron, C., Delgado, C., Hernández, A. C., Muñoz, V. R., Rogers, M., & Toxtli, C. (2024) · Avances en Interacción Humano-Computadora · doi:10.47756/aihc.y9i1.140

Understanding and Developing Models for Detecting and Differentiating Breakpoints during Task Execution

Iqbal, S. T., & Bailey, B. P. (2006) · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

TaCoS: Generated Context Summaries for Task Resumption

Lill, A., Hollenstein, V., Rutishauser, R., Meyer, A. N., & Fritz, T. (2026) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) · doi:10.1145/3744916.3773226

TaskSnap: One Task at a Time With Snapshots

Souza, J., Egloff, R., Fritz, T., & Meyer, A. N. (2026) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/tse.2026.3656405

Context‐centric proactive information delivery for Knowledge Work support: Opportunities, challenges, and directions. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Bakhshizadeh, M., Jilek, C., Schröder, M., Maus, H., & Dengel, A. (2026) · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · doi:10.1002/asi.70064

Découverte interactive et complète de chroniques : application à la co-construction de connaissances à partir de traces

Cram, D. (2010) · doi:10.70675/eb7f3fe7z394bz4054zac9cz9360baed57ff

From Tabs to Structures: Understanding and Supporting Web Page Management

Rutishauser, R., & Fritz, T. (2026) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3772318.3791979

Self-(re)organizing and Especially Forgetful Personal Knowledge Assistants to Support Information Management and Knowledge Work

Jilek, C., Maus, H., Tempel, T., Frings, C., Niederée, C., & Dengel, A. R. (2026) · Progress in IS · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-17621-9_6

Supporting knowledge workers in practice : how do they understand and use work units?

Stumpf, S., Burnett, M., Rajaram, V., & Herlocker, J. L. (2006)

Attention Management: A Survey

Barbosa, C. E., Cunha, L. M., Neto, B. H., Orleans, L. F., Silva, C. E. P., Oliveira, J., & de Souza, J. M. (2008)

The TaskTracer system

Stumpf, S., Bao, X., Dragunov, A. N., Dietterich, T. G., Herlockel, J., Johnsrude, K., Li, L., & Shen, J. (2005) · ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · Cited by 16

Predicting User Tasks: I Know What You're Doing!

Stumpf, S., Bao, X., Dragunov, A., Dietterich, T. G., Herlocker, J., Johnsrude, K., Li, L., & Shen, J. (2005) · ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · Cited by 8

Tasktracer: Enhancing personal information management through machine learning

Stumpf, S., & Herlocker, J. (2006) · Cited by 5

Detecting and correcting user activity switches: Algorithms and interfaces

Shen, J., Irvine, J., Bao, X., Goodman, M., Kolibaba, S., Carl, F., Kirschner, B., Stumpf, S., & Dietterich, T. G. (2009)

Detecting and correcting user activity switches: algorithms and interfaces

Shen, J., Irvine, J., Bao, X., Goodman, M., Kolibaba, S., Tran, A., Carl, F., Kirschner, B., Stumpf, S., & Dietterich, T. G. (2009) · Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces · doi:10.1145/1502650.1502670 · Cited by 37