BACKGROUND

Understanding how a person spends time is important for assessing the person's work-related productivity and personal well-being. One tool that may provide valuable information for determining how a person (e.g. an employee) spends their time is an electronic calendaring application. Calendaring applications generally enable a user to exchange electronic meeting notices with other users via electronic communications (e.g. email), and also enable the user to make other calendar entries that serve a variety of other purposes. Thus, a user may use a calendaring application to schedule a variety of work-related activities (e.g. arrange and attend meetings, reminders to call clients, etc.), and to schedule variety of personal activities (e.g. exercise time, doctor appointments, birthday reminders, vacation, family activities, etc.). Although desirable results are being achieved using electronic calendaring applications, such calendaring applications currently remain an under-utilized source of information for assessing a user's work-related productivity and personal well-being.

SUMMARY

Techniques and technologies for using an intelligent meeting classifier to assess and enhance a work-related productivity are described.

For example, in at least some embodiments, a system for assessing and enhancing work-related productivity includes a processing component operatively coupled to a memory; a productivity analyzer at least partially disposed in the memory, the productivity analyzer including one or more instructions that when executed by the processing component perform operations including: classifying one or more calendar events based at least partially on calendar data associated with one or more users; assessing one or more productivity metrics based at least partially on one or more calendar event classifications; determining one or more situation-enhancing operations based on the assessed one or more productivity metrics; and performing the one or more situation-enhancing operations.

In addition, in at least some implementations, a method for assessing and enhancing a work-related productivity using one or more processing components of a computing device comprises: analyzing a textual content associated with a calendar event to determine one or more ngrams associated with the textual content of the calendar event; analyzing at least the one or more ngrams associated with the calendar event to assign a tag associated with the calendar event; and classifying the calendar event based at least partially on the tag associated with the calendar event; assessing one or more productivity metrics based at least partially on the one or more calendar event classifications; determining one or more situation-enhancing operations based on the assessed one or more productivity metrics; and performing the one or more situation-enhancing operations. In at least some implementations, the ngrams determined by analyzing the textual content associated with the calendar event may include one or more skip-grams. In addition, in some implementations, the method may further include obtaining meeting location information and, if applicable, user location information at the time of meeting; obtaining meeting meta data (e.g. online meetings); and obtaining generic meeting meta data (e.g., holidays, workdays vs. weekends), and analyzing these additional data as part of the determining of the one or more ngrams associated with the calendar event.

In at least some further implementations, a system for assessing and enhancing work-related productivity, comprises: circuitry for analyzing a textual content associated with a calendar event to determine one or more ngrams associated with the textual content of the calendar event; circuitry for analyzing at least the one or more ngrams associated with the calendar event to assign a tag associated with the calendar event; circuitry for classifying the calendar event based at least partially on the tag associated with the calendar event; circuitry for assessing one or more productivity metrics based at least partially on the one or more calendar event classifications; circuitry for determining one or more situation-enhancing operations based on the assessed one or more productivity metrics; and circuitry for performing the one or more situation-enhancing operations.

This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.

