The Learning Shell

Adaptive User Interfaces

Volume

Papers from the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

In this paper we present preliminary work in the area of automated construction of user profiles. We consider the task of modeling the behavior of a user working with a command shell (such as csh or bash under the Unix operating system). We illustrate how the technique of inductive logic programming can be used to build a user profile and how this profile can be used to predict the future behavior of the user. We describe a first set of experiments to test these hypotheses and present directions for future work.