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Email as Electronic Memory: A Spatial Exploration Interface

Authors:
Florian Müller

Keywords: Multimedia, Information retrieval, Data visualization, Electronic memory, Lifelogging

Abstract:
Recently, electronic memory (e-memory) applications have come into research focus. Using personal data ranging from email to actual life logs, they are to provide us with an interface that facilitates functions such as retrieving, reminiscing, and reflecting information from our past – functions that we know well from our biological memory. We present an exemplary e-memory application based on personal email archives that supports reflection and reminiscence by providing a spatial layout of email communication data. The spatial layout is derived using a physical force relaxation simulation. In order to emphasize various properties of the communication network, the communication is represented as a weighted, directed graph. This allows analysis in terms of various metrics.

Pages: 98 to 103

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: April 17, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-129-8

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Dates: from April 17, 2011 to April 22, 2011