groupTime: preference based group scheduling

by Mike Brzozowski, Kendra Carattini, Scott R. Klemmer, Patrick Mihelich, Jiang Hu, and Andrew Y. Ng. Video companion to CHI 2006 paper

As our business, academic, and personal lives continue to move at an ever-faster pace, finding times for busy people to meet has become an art. One of the most perplexing challenges facing groupware is effective asynchronous group scheduling (GS). This paper presents a lightweight interaction model for GS that can extend its reach beyond users of current group calendaring solutions. By expressing availability in terms of preferences, we create a flexible framework for GS that preserves plausible deniability while exerting social pressure to encourage honesty among users. We also propose an ontology that enables us to model user preferences with machine learning, predicting user responses to further lower cognitive load. The combination of visualization/direct manipulation with machine learning allows users to easily and efficiently optimize meeting times. We also suggest resulting design implications for this class of intelligent user interfaces.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Machine learning
• supervised learning
• group scheduling
• group calendaring