Life-browsing with a Lifetime of Email


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Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam
Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, 2010 Apr 10

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Hangal, S., & Lam, M. S. (2010). Life-browsing with a Lifetime of Email. In Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA.

Chicago/Turabian
Hangal, Sudheendra, and Monica S. Lam. “Life-Browsing with a Lifetime of Email.” In Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA, 2010.

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Hangal, Sudheendra, and Monica S. Lam. “Life-Browsing with a Lifetime of Email.” Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010, 2010.


Many mainstream users have accumulated large email repositories, egged on by free and ubiquitous service providers exhorting them to “Never delete anything!” Over a lifetime, many of these users can expect to accumulate 50 years or more worth of email archives. Unlike blogging or keeping a diary or journal, email silently captures our experiences and thoughts, virtually every day, week, month, or year, in situ, as they come up in our communication. Unlike most other life-logging techniques, email already has a large user base with a large volume of data, that can be used for experiments. We have implemented an exploratory email mining tool called Dunbar to understand challenges in life-browsing with a large corpus of email. Based on our experience so far, we outline several research questions in email mining that need to be addressed.

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