| Wk | Date | Readings Topic | Reading (myWPI) | Presenter | Lecture/Lab | Project Milestone |
| 1 | 21-Jan | N/A | N/A | N/A | Overview | N/A |
| 2 | 26-Jan | N/A | N/A | N/A | Goal/Task Based User Interfaces | "Hello World" for task engine |
| 28-Jan | Snow Day | Snow Day | Snow Day | Snow Day | Snow Day | |
| 3 | 2-Feb | Goal/Task Based User interfaces | Rich & Sidner, DiamondHelp: A Generic Collaborative Task Guidance System, AI Magazine 2007 | Rich | Lab | |
| 4-Feb | CEA-2018 Task Model Description [myWPI login required] | Rich | Lab | Read CEA-2018 standard document | ||
| 4 | 9-Feb | Lieberman & Espinosa, A Goal-Oriented Interface to Consumer Electronics using Planning and Commonsense Reasoning, IUI'06 | Rich | Intelligent Tutoring Systems | ||
| 11-Feb | Intelligent Tutoring Systems | Conati et al, On-Line Student Modeling for Coached Problem Solving Using Bayesian Networks, UM'97 | Judd | Lab | ||
| 5 | 16-Feb | Rickel & Johnson, Integrating Pedagogical Capabilities in a Virtual Environment Agent, AA'97 | Forbes-Summers | Automated GUI Design | Written proposal (includes paper sketch of task model) | |
| 18-Feb | Automated GUI Design | Gajos & Weld, SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces, IUI'04 | Hanson | Lab | Proposals approved | |
| 6 | 23-Feb | Bunt et al, Supporting Interface Customization using a Mixed-Initiative Approach, IUI'07 | Gibbons | Personal Assistants | First draft of task model in CEA-2018 notation | |
| 25-Feb | Personal Assistants | Segal & Kephart, MailCat: An Intelligent Assistant for Organizing E-Mail, AA'99 | Judd | Lab | Domain simulator implemented | |
| 7 | 2-Mar | Snow Day | Snow Day | Snow Day | Snow Day | |
| 4-Mar | Berry et al, A Personalized Time Management Assistant: Research Directions, AAAI SS 2005 | Forbes-Summers | Multimodal Dialogue | First running version of task guidance using model | ||
| 8 | 9-Mar (Break) | Multimodal Dialogue | Horchani et al, A Platform for Output Dialogic Strategies in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, IUI'07 | Hanson | Lab | |
| 11-Mar (Break) | Chai et al, A Probabilistic Approach to Reference Resolution, IUI'04 | Forbes-Summers | Recommender Systems | |||
| 9 | 16-Mar | Recommender Systems | Pazzani & Billsus, Content-Based Recommendation Systems, LNCS 2007 | Gibbons | Lab | |
| 18-Mar | Schafer et al, Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems, LNCS 2007 | Hanson | Lab | |||
| 10 | 23-Mar | N/A | N/A | N/A | Collaborative Dialogue | Progress Report & Demo |
| 25-Mar | Collaborative Dialogue | Allen et al, Chester: Towards a Personal Medication Advisor, J. Biomedical Informatics 2006 [long paper] | Judd | Speech in CETask Guide | ||
| 11 | 30-Mar | Rich et al, COLLAGEN: Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory to Human-Computer Interaction, AI Magazine 2001 | Gibbons | Embodied Conversational Agents | ||
| 1-Apr | Embodied Conversational Agents | Pelachaud, Multimodal Expressive Embodied Conversational Agents, MM'05 | Hanson | Lab | Design of natural language input grammar | |
| 12 | 6-Apr | Bickmore & Picard, Establishing and Maintaining Long-Term Human-Computer Relationships, ToCHI 2005 [long paper] | Forbes-Summers | Affective Computing | "Hello World" for Sphinx4 | |
| 8-Apr | Affective Computing | Gratch & Marsella, Lessons from Emotion Psychology for the Design of Lifelike Characters, AAI 2005 | Gibbons | Lab | Implementation of natural language text input | |
| 13 | 13-Apr | D'Mello et al, Towards an Affect-Sensitive AutoTutor, IEEE Intelligent Sys. 2007 | Judd | Human-Robot Interaction | Implementation of speech input | |
| 15-Apr | Human-Robot Interaction | Morency et al, Head Gestures for Perceptual Interfaces: The Role of Context in Improving Recognition, AIJ 2007 [long paper] | Hanson | Lab | "Hello World" for TTS | |
| 14 | 22-Apr | Breazeal et al, Learning From and About Others: Towards Using Imitation to Bootstrap the Social Understanding of Others by Robots, Art. Life 2004 [long paper] | Gibbons | Intelligent Environments | Implementation of speech output | |
| 15 | 27-Apr | Intelligent Environments | Hanssens et al, Building Agent-Based Intelligent Workspaces, ABA'02 | Judd | Lab | |
| 29-Apr | Youngblood et al, A Learning Architecture for Automating the Intelligent Environment, IAAI'05 | Forbes-Summers | Lab | |||
| 16 | 4-May | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Final presentation, demo and web page |