Standardizing the Representations of User Tasks

Acquisition, Learning, and Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users

Volume

Papers from the 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This paper consists of two parts. The first section makes a case for spending some time at the symposium designing a common representation for user tasks and their automation. The second section briefly presents Grizzly Bear, a demonstrational tool that I have built over the last three years (and which taught me the importance of a well-defined underlying representation the hard way).