Interface to select application based on state transition models of work

An application determining unit to determine an application among a plurality of applications for completing a work task, the application determining unit comprising:

• a work task module to determine a current work task among a plurality of work tasks based on an environmental activity of a user performing the current work task;
• a passive state module to determine an initial passive state among a plurality of transitional passive states of the user based on at least one of a user activity and the at least one environmental activity, the passive state module including a transition module that transitions the initial passive state into an updated passive state based on transition probabilities associated with the plurality of transitional passive states;
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• an application module to determine a suitable application among the plurality of applications based on at least one of the updated passive state and the current work task.

A computer program product comprising:

• a tangible storage medium readable by a computer processing circuit and storing instruction for execution by the computer processing circuit to perform a method of determining an application among a plurality of applications for completing a work task, the method comprising:
• determining a current work task among a plurality of work tasks based on an environmental activity of a user performing the current work task;
• determining an initial passive state among a plurality of transitional passive states of the user based on at least one of a user activity and the at least one environmental activity;
• transitioning the initial passive state into an updated passive state based on transition probabilities associated with the plurality of transitional passive states;
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• determining a suitable application among the plurality of applications based on at least one of the updated passive state and the current work task.