Activity-Based Computing: Computational Management of Activities Reflecting Human Intention

Activity-Based Computing: Computational Management of Activities Reflecting Human Intention

SUMMER 2015 63 In today’s world of ubiquitous computing, an abundance of information is constantly at hand wherever you go, whenever you desire. This can make it challenging for users to find the actual information they need in between these vast amounts of resources. Additionally, unrelated information can easily distract users from the original work they set out to do, leading separate activi...

Supporting Human Activities - Exploring Activity-Centered Computing

In this paper we explore an activity-centered computing paradigm that is aimed at supporting work processes that are radically different from the ones known from office work. Our main inspiration is healthcare work that is characterized by an extreme degree of mobility, many interruptions, ad-hoc collaboration based on shared material, and organized in terms of well-defined, recurring, work act...

Computational Modeling of Human Social Intention

In this paper, we propose to analyze the kinematic of human arm to predict social intention (personal vs. social intention). We propose to use infrared markers placed on the arms of two human subjects. The trajectories of different markers are defined as shape spaces and subsequently analyzed as a Riemannian manifold for the purposes of characterizing the intention (personal vs. social). The fi...

Towards an Author Intention Based Computational Model of Story Generation

This paper addresses the problem of plot controllable story generation model. Since most of the previous works focus on logically flawless plot, the main challenge is the need for more generic method to generate dramatic and interesting plot. Motivated by this background, this paper proposes a computational method for plot controllable story generation. Firstly, we use planning as a model of pl...

From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing