Next Generation Productivity

Established: January 1, 2012

Our team of researchers has been investigating how online and offline social interactions of information workers affect their productivity and sense of well-being.

As people’s time becomes increasingly fragmented, getting tasks accomplished becomes more and more challenging. In this project we are investigating ways of decomposing larger tasks into smaller microtasks that leverage the micromoments that exist sporadically during a person’s day. Our…

Established: January 1, 2009

Driver attention is a valuable commodity in maintaining driving safety. However, with the proliferation of many interactive devices that place demands on the driver’s attention while driving, effectively allocating attention with the primary goal of managing driving safety presents substantial…

Established: February 1, 2015

Calendar.help is a service that allows people to delegate their scheduling tasks to their own virtual scheduling assistant.