Paper Info
Title
Designing a personal information visualization tool
Abstract
Interacting with computers has become part of our daily lives. This interaction results in large amounts of personal information, spread throughout places and applications. As a consequence, it is quite difficult to get an overall view of all our information or to find a specific item we are looking for. A meaningful visualization technique may be the solution to this problem. We present VisMe, an interactive visualization tool that allows users to explore personal information. It integrates and uniformly displays relevant concepts in interconnected timelines. Each of these items (people, subjects and documents) can be progressively explored, creating new timelines, where several avenues can be simultaneously explored in context. VisMe allows relations between concepts to be explored in a straightforward way. By providing the means to interactively find relations between different kinds of information in order to retrieve personally relevant data, VisMe gives users insight into their digital selves that current tools have a hard time providing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1868914.1868999
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
relevant data,relevant concept,personal information visualization tool,current tool,new timelines,personal information,different kind,users insight,daily life,meaningful visualization technique,interactive visualization tool,information visualization,interactive visualization,personal information management,user centered design
World Wide Web,Personal information management,Information visualization,Visualization,Computer science,Visual analytics,Human–computer interaction,Interactive visualization,Personally identifiable information,Multimedia,User-centered design,Personal information manager
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo Gomes120.41
Sandra Gama2658.52
Daniel Gonçalves3324.80