Simulating users to support the design of activity management systems

  • Authors:
  • Julie S. Weber;Martha E. Pollack

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We describe a simulation system that models the user of a calendar-management tool. The tool is intended to learn the user's scheduling preferences, and we employ the simulator to evaluate learning strategies. The simulated user is instantiated with a set of preferences over local and global features of a schedule such as the level of importance of a particular meeting and the amount of preparation time available before it is to begin. The system then processes a set of simulated meeting requests, and over time and through user feedback, it learns the user's preferences, affording it the ability to thereafter manage the user's schedule more autonomously.