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Li-Chen Lim Miller

Neal Osotio

Jason Dean Giles

Robert Mitchell Smith

Joseph T Wyman

Jonathan Garcia

Pat Halvorsen

An efficient blend of home/personal and work/productivity related content based on a user's intent is provided, wherein the user's intent can be determined based on context information, learned user interaction patterns, and historical work and home characteristics and patterns. The system is individualized to the user and operative to generate a user experience that provides a blend of relevant home/personal and work/productivity related information to the user based on the user's current work and life characteristics. From a determined user intent, various aspects provide personalized computing experiences tailored to the user and, in some examples, incorporation of the user's patterns into an efficient blend of personal and productivity workflows. In further examples, the blend of home/personal and work/productivity related content and workflows are selectively displayed to the user such that screen resources are efficiently and advantageously allocated based on a determined relevance to the user's current work and life characteristics.

Dynamic productivity content rendering based upon user interaction patterns

An efficient blend of home/personal and work/productivity related content based on a user's intent is provided, wherein the user's intent can be determined based on context information, learned user interaction patterns, and historical work and home characteristics and patterns. The system is individualized to the user and operative to generate a user experience that provides a blend of relevant home/personal and work/productivity related information to the user based on the user's current work and life characteristics. From determined user intent, various aspects provide personalized computing experiences tailored to the user and, in some examples, incorporation of the user's patterns into an efficient blend of personal and productivity workflows. In further examples, the blend of home/personal and work/productivity related content and workflows are selectively displayed to the user such that screen resources are efficiently and advantageously allocated based on a determined relevance to the user's current work and life characteristics.

Example apparatus and methods concern attributing user actions based on biometric identifications. One example method includes detecting an action intended to control an application associated with a shared launch surface. The method includes associating the action with a body located in a field of view of a biometric sensor associated with a shared launch surface. Data from the biometric sensor is used to determine a biometric identity for the body and then the action is attributed to a user as a function of the biometric identity. A context associated with the user is accessed and an operation associated with the action is selectively controlled based on the context.

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