ConTask - Using Context-sensitive Assistance to Improve Task-oriented Knowledge Work

Jan Haas, Heiko Maus, Sven Schwarz, Andreas Dengel

2010

Abstract

The paper presents an approach to support knowledge-intensive tasks with a context-sensitive task management system that is integrated into the user's personal knowledge space represented in the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop. The context-sensitive assistance is based on the combination of user observation, agile task modelling, automatic task prediction, as well as elicitation and proactive delivery of relevant information items from the knowledge worker's personal knowledge space.

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Haas J., Maus H., Schwarz S. and Dengel A. (2010). ConTask - Using Context-sensitive Assistance to Improve Task-oriented Knowledge Work . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-05-8, pages 30-39. DOI: 10.5220/0002895400300039


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@conference{iceis10,
author={Jan Haas and Heiko Maus and Sven Schwarz and Andreas Dengel},
title={ConTask - Using Context-sensitive Assistance to Improve Task-oriented Knowledge Work},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={30-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002895400300039},
isbn={978-989-8425-05-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - ConTask - Using Context-sensitive Assistance to Improve Task-oriented Knowledge Work
SN - 978-989-8425-05-8
AU - Haas J.
AU - Maus H.
AU - Schwarz S.
AU - Dengel A.
PY - 2010
SP - 30
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0002895400300039