We describe research on principles of context-sensitive reminding that show promise for serving in systems that work to jog peoples’ memories about information that they may forget. The methods center on the construction and use of a set of distinct probabilistic models that predict (1) items that may be forgotten, (2) the expected relevance of the items, and (3) the cost of interruption associ...

We are currently developing an adaptive, emotional, and expressive interface agent, which learns when and how to notify users about self-assigned tasks and events. In this paper, we describe the learning system and the user feedback mechanism we have designed. Then, we discuss issues concerning the expression of emotions, in the situation where the user should not be distracted by an adaptive t...

We describe research on principles of context-sensitive reminding that show promise for serving in systems that work to jog peoples’ memories about information that they may forget. The methods center on the construction and use of a set of distinct probabilistic models that predict (1) items that may be forgotten, (2) the expected relevance of the items in a situation, and (3) the cost of inte...

In two experiments, we investigated the influence of repeated processing in the context of the generation effect. In both experiments, participants studied words once or twice. Once-studied words either were read or were generated from a definition. Twice-studied words were read both times, generated both times, or read once and generated once. Free recall was best (in order of decreasing perfo...

Introduction Recent work in skill acquisition has suggested that the use of examples of previously attempted problems is critical during the early stages of skill learning and is still common after a skill has been acquired (Pirolli & Anderson, 1985; Ross & Kennedy 1990). Much of the data on the effects of specific prior problems has been published in the crossdomain analogy literature where ba...

We read with great interest the recent article by Teichmann et al. [1], who presented results of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) accuracy to differentiate typical (amnestic) Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from other neurodegenerative diseases. The authors assessed FCSRT in a group of 992 individuals, most of them with the diagnosis of AD, and stated that FCSRT would have a sensitiv...