%0 Conference Proceedings %A Conley, K. and Carpenter, J. %T Towel: Towards an Intelligent To-Do List %B Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Artificial Assistants %C Stanford, CA %D 2007 %X In this paper we describe Towel, a task management application that couples a user’s to-do list with a software personal ssistant. This to-do list provides a unified environment for managing personal tasks, delegating tasks to the software personal assistant, and collaborating with other users. We use to-do list and instant messaging metaphors to enable the user to initiate, manage, and modify complex agent-executed tasks. Through simple operations on to-do items and direct-manipulation chat, we envision many seamless interactions between the user and various AI technologies that ultimately result in saving the user work, reducing cognitive load, and improving task performance. %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1441.pdf
