Paper Info
Title
Visualizing email content: portraying relationships from conversational histories
Abstract
We present Themail, a visualization that portrays relationships using the interaction histories preserved in email archives. Using the content of exchanged messages, it shows the words that characterize one's correspondence with an individual and how they change over the period of the relationship.This paper describes the interface and content-parsing algorithms in Themail. It also presents the results from a user study where two main interaction modes with the visualization emerged: exploration of "big picture" trends and themes in email (haystack mode) and more detail-oriented exploration (needle mode). Finally, the paper discusses the limitations of the content parsing approach in Themail and the implications for further research on email content visualization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1124772.1124919
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
haystack mode,big picture,detail-oriented exploration,needle mode,conversational history,user study,email content visualization,email archives,main interaction mode,content-parsing algorithm,content parsing approach,user interface,history,visualization
World Wide Web,HTML email,Haystack,Computer science,Visualization,Human–computer interaction,Parsing,User interface,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-372-7
106
7.18
References 
Authors
14
3
Search Limit
100106
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fernanda B. Viégas13208283.62
Scott Golder21579.79
Judith S. Donath31029158.32