IUI 2009 - From Geek to Sleek

From Geek to Sleek: Integrating Task Learning Tools to support End users in Real-world Applications
By: Aaron Spaulding, Will Haines, Melinda Gervasio (SRI International), and Jim Blythe (USC)

Summary:
This article discusses how users can benefit from an integrated task learning system (ITL). It will gain task information by instruction learning and programming by demonstration. Thus, it will help the user get rid of time-consuming, repetitive tasks. To conclude, the application was integrated in a military framework and initial results shows the users interacted well with the interface.

Discussion:

This article was somewhat interesting. For the targeted audience, it showed to improve the user's interaction and save time by the application learning how to do some of their repetitive tasks. However, due to the specific audience, the article does not properly give examples of how this could benefit an average user and in turn, lost my interest.