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Title:

TaskGenies: Automatically Providing Action Plans Helps People Complete Tasks

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Kokkalis, Nicolas; Köhn, Thomas; Huebner, Johannes; Lee, Moontae; Schulze, Florian; Klemmer, Scott R.
Non-TUM Co-author(s):
ja
Cooperation:
international
Abstract:
People complete tasks more quickly when they have concrete plans. However, they often fail to create such action plans. (How) can systems provide these concrete steps automatically? This article demonstrates that these benefits can also be realized when these plans are created by others or reused from similar tasks. Four experiments test these approaches, finding that people indeed complete more tasks when they receive externally-created action plans. To automatically provide plans, we introduce...     »
Keywords:
Crowdsourcing, Task management, action plans, implementation intentions, time management
Intellectual Contribution:
Discipline-based Research
Journal title:
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Journal listet in FT50 ranking:
nein
Year:
2013
Journal volume:
20
Month:
nov
Journal issue:
5
Pages contribution:
27:1--27:25
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1145/2513560
Publisher:
ACM
Print-ISSN:
1073-0516
Judgement review:
0
Key publication:
Nein
Peer reviewed:
Ja
International:
Ja
Book review:
Nein
Commissioned:
not commissioned
Professional Journal:
Nein
Interdisciplinarity:
Nein
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