Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data
ACM SIGMOD Record
In search of personal information: narrative-based interfaces
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
StoryTags: once upon a time, there was a photo
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A narrative-based alternative to tagging
Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
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Traditional ways to help users organize and retrieve their documents don't scale well, nor do they properly handle non-textual documents. This paper evaluates narrative-based interfaces as a natural and effective alternative for document retrieval. We have identified what shape document-describing stories take, and what contents to expect. This led to an interface that is able to capture stories, and a knowledge-based infrastructure to understand them. A prototype of the interface was used to validate narrative-based interfaces, with emphasis on story accuracy. To this end, we collected thirty stories whose contents were then compared to the documents they portrayed. Results allow us to conclude that, for the most part, such stories are trustworthy enough to allow humans to retrieve documents reliably (81%-91% of all information is correct). We also confirmed that stories told to a computer are similar to those told to human interviewers.