Deploying a personalized time management agent

We report on our ongoing practical experience in designing, implementing, and deploying PTIME, a personalized agent for time management and meeting scheduling in an open, multi-agent environment. In developing PTIME as part of a larger assistive agent called CALO, we have faced numerous challenges, including usability, multi-agent coordination, scalable constraint reasoning, robust execution, and unobtrusive learning. Our research advances basic solutions to the fundamental problems; however, integrating PTIME into a deployed system has raised other important issues for the successful adoption of new technology. As a personal assistant, PTIME must integrate easily into a user's real environment, support her normal workflow, respect her authority and privacy, provide natural user interfaces, and handle the issues that arise with deploying such a system in an open environment. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4.1 [INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS]: Office Automation--Time manag...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Pauline Berry, Bart Peintner, Ken Conley, Melinda T. Gervasio, Tomás E. Uribe, Neil Yorke-Smith
• Keywords: Agent Called Calo, ATAL 2006, Intelligent Agents, Personal Assistants, User Interfaces