{"id":1915,"date":"2016-04-01T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2020-02-28T02:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T02:59:36","slug":"on-clippy-and-building-sotware-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/on-clippy-and-building-sotware-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"On Clippy and building software assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been attending a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DataCereal\/status\/702220345995096066\">reading group<\/a> on visualization tools for the last few weeks. This is a unique multi-institution group that meets over web-conferencing at 4 PM EST \/ 1 PM PST on Fridays. It includes a diverse bunch of participants including non-academic researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Every week we vote on and discuss a range of topics related to building tools for visualizing data.<\/p>\n<p>This week, it was my turn to lead a discussion on the <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/1301\/1301.7385.pdf\">Lumiere paper<\/a>. This is the research responsible for the now retired Clippy Office assistant. I also noticed a strong <a href=\"http:\/\/isp.pitt.edu\">ISP<\/a> presence in the references section as the paper focuses on Bayesian user modeling.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion, we talked about how we can offer help to use <em>vis tools<\/em> better. Here are my slides from it:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/229356325\" width=\"660\" height=\"534\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br\/>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Eric Horvitz, Jack Breese, David Heckerman, David Hovel, and Koos Rommelse. 1998. The lumi\u00e8re project: Bayesian user modeling for inferring the goals and needs of software users. In Proceedings of the <em>Fourteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence (UAI&#8217;98)<\/em>, Gregory F. Cooper and Seraf\u00edn Moral (Eds.). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA, 256-265.<\/li>\n<li>Justin Matejka, Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2009. CommunityCommands: command recommendations for software applications. In Proceedings of the <em>22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology<\/em>. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 193-202.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been attending a reading group on visualization tools for the last few weeks. This is a unique multi-institution group that meets over web-conferencing at 4 PM EST \/ 1 PM PST on Fridays. It includes a diverse bunch of participants including non-academic researchers. Every week we vote on and discuss a range of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/on-clippy-and-building-sotware-assistants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Clippy and building software assistants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci","category-projects","category-talks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46eol-uT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trivedigaurav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}