FACULTY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERINGDepartment of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

A Task-Oriented User Interface for SmartphonesChuong C. Vo, Torab Torabi, & Seng W. Loke

Application-Oriented User Interface

Search tasks by typing

Search tasks by

drawing

Search tasks by

speaking

Executetask

To turn off lights via your phone, you must:

•find, install, learn an app that allows you to do this task

•re-install & re-learn the app every time that app has a new version

•uninstall that app and install a new one if the new one is claimed

better

•use two different apps for this same task: one app is to turn off

your office’s lights, the other is to turn off your home’s lights.

Problem

Method & Implementation

References

Location-based task recommendation

Our Task-Oriented User Interface

Sharetask

1. Vo, C. C., Loke, S. W., Torabi, T., & Nguyen, T. (2011). TASKREC: A task-based user interface for smart spaces. The 9th Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2011), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.2. Vo, C. C., Torabi, T., & Loke, S. W. (2010). Task-Oriented Systems for Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments. The 7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2010), Sydney, Australia.