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Bao, X., Herlocker, J., Dietterich, T. Fewer Clicks and Less Frustration: Reducing the Cost of Reaching the Right Folder. In 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 178-185. Sydney, Australia.

Abstract
Helping computer users rapidly locate files in their folder
hierarchies has become an important research topic in today’s
intelligent user interface design. This paper reports on
FolderPredictor, a software system that can reduce the cost of
locating files in hierarchical folders. FolderPredictor applies a
cost-sensitive prediction algorithm to the user’s previous file
access information to predict the next folder that will be accessed.
Experimental results show that, on average, FolderPredictor
reduces the cost of locating a file by 50%. Another advantage of
FolderPredictor is that it does not require users to adapt to a new
interface, but rather meshes with the existing interface for
opening files on the Windows platform.

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