PeopleGarden: creating data portraits for users
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Communications of the ACM
Time as essence for photo browsing through personal digital libraries
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Improving Web Usability Through Visualization
IEEE Internet Computing
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
Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 4 - Volume 4
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 4 - Volume 4
Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Time quilt: scaling up zoomable photo browsers for large, unstructured photo collections
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything
Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
Visualizing email content: portraying relationships from conversational histories
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DejaView: a personal virtual computer recorder
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What did they do? understanding clickstreams with the WebQuilt visualization system
Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Window Watcher: a visualisation tool for understanding windowing activities
OZCHI '09 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7
The Streams of Our Lives: Visualizing Listening Histories in Context
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
YouPivot: improving recall with contextual search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MUSE: reviving memories using email archives
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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In this paper we present AppInsight, a visualization tool that enables users to reminisce on their computer usage history and derive meaningful insights about behaviors and trends. Human memory has the ability to re-experience episodes from our lives when supplied with suitable contextual cues, such as places, music, and so on. We explore a small set of properties, such as the application's name, URL and window title as contextual cues, in order to characterize the users' activity on their personal computers and how it evolves over time. Our user study shows that users enjoyed viewing their computer usage history and were able to both recall past events and introspect about their lives. Moreover, one of the most surprising outcomes is that they found several different applications for our tool, such as improving usage behaviors, controlling productivity, generating activity reports, and monitoring users in psychological studies. Finally, we discuss some lessons learned from our study and propose future research directions.