International Business Machines Corporation
System and Method for Optimum Alternative Recommendation for Personal Productivity Efficiency

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for recommending an alternative activity to a user. Information is received from a plurality of sources related to the user, information includes a set of activities, a duration D and a measurement of productivity associated with the activities P, each activity has the duration and the productivity. A clustered and classified sets of activities A is received, that comprise the information applied with a clustering algorithm to associate a cluster of types of activities and productivity associated with the cluster of types of activity with a recommended continuous time duration. Responsive to detecting a current activity exceeding the recommended continuous time duration and an indication of a reduction of productivity for the current activity, an alternative activity is recommended to the user.