Paper Info
Title
MUSE: reviving memories using email archives
Abstract
Email archives silently record our actions and thoughts over the years, forming a passively acquired and detailed life-log that contains rich material for reminiscing on our lives. However, exploratory browsing of archives containing thousands of messages is tedious without effective ways to guide the user towards interesting events and messages. We present Muse (Memories USing Email), a system that combines data mining techniques and an interactive interface to help users browse a long-term email archive. Muse analyzes the contents of the archive and generates a set of cues that help to spark users' memories: communication activity with inferred social groups, a summary of recurring named entities, occurrence of sentimental words, and image attachments. These cues serve as salient entry points into a browsing interface that enables faceted navigation and rapid skimming of email messages. In our user studies, we found that users generally enjoyed browsing their archives with Muse, and extracted a range of benefits, from summarizing work progress to renewing friendships and making serendipitous discoveries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2047196.2047206
UIST
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
browsing interface,detailed life-log,email message,communication activity,user study,email archives,memories using email,exploratory browsing,long-term email archive,data mining technique,interactive interface,data analysis,data transformation,data mining,social groups,data cleaning
Conference
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.14
29
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sudheendra Hangal153635.73
Monica S. Lam25585705.61
Jeffrey Heer35322349.19