How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
UMEA: translating interaction histories into project contexts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
In pursuit of desktop evolution: User problems and practices with modern desktop systems
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
TaskTracer: a desktop environment to support multi-tasking knowledge workers
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Connections: using context to enhance file search
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A hybrid learning system for recognizing user tasks from desktop activities and email messages
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
SWISH: semantic analysis of window titles and switching history
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
CAAD: an automatic task support system
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
In search of personal information: narrative-based interfaces
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
From documents to tasks: deriving user tasks from document usage patterns
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
The CLOTHO project: predicting application utility
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
TrapperKeeper: the case for using virtualization to add type awareness to file systems
HotStorage'10 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Hot topics in storage and file systems
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Modern desktop search is ill-fitted to our personal document workspace. On one hand, many of the methods which render web search effective cannot be applied on the desktop. On the other, desktop search does not take full advantage of attributes that are unique to our personal documents. In this work, we present Confluence, a desktop search system that addresses this problem by capturing the task context within which a user interacts with their documents. This context is then integrated with traditional desktop search techniques to enable task-based document retrieval. Building upon Connections, a system that identifies task context by passively monitoring the user's interaction with their documents within the file system. Confluence also traces user activity within the user interface and incorporates methods to analyze and integrate this new stream of information. We show that this approach significantly improves the accuracy of task identification, achieving 25% to 30% better recall.