Decision theoretic perspective on optimizing intelligent help

  • Authors:
  • Chulwoo Kim;Mark R. Lehto

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: intelligent multimodal interaction environments
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

With the increasing complexity of systems and information overload, agent technology has become widely used to provide personalized advice (help message) to users with their computer-based tasks. The purpose of this study is to investigate the way to optimize advice provided by the intelligent agent from a decision theoretic perspective. The study utilizes the time associated with processing a help message as the trade-off criterion of whether to present a help message or not. The proposed approach is expected to provide guidance as to where, when and why help messages are likely to be effective or ineffective by providing quantitative predictions of value of help messages in time.