Do you know what you did last summer? Visualizing personal behavior in Google services

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Zhicheng Liu, Sarita Yardi, John Stasko
Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, 2010 Apr 10

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Liu, Z., Yardi, S., & Stasko, J. (2010). Do you know what you did last summer? Visualizing personal behavior in Google services. In Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA.

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Liu, Zhicheng, Sarita Yardi, and John Stasko. “Do You Know What You Did Last Summer? Visualizing Personal Behavior in Google Services.” In Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA, 2010.

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Liu, Zhicheng, et al. “Do You Know What You Did Last Summer? Visualizing Personal Behavior in Google Services.” Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010, 2010.

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@inproceedings{liu2010a,
  title = {Do you know what you did last summer? Visualizing personal behavior in Google services},
  year = {2010},
  month = apr,
  day = {10},
  address = {Atlanta, GA},
  author = {Liu, Zhicheng and Yardi, Sarita and Stasko, John},
  booktitle = {Know Thyself: Monitoring and Reflecting on Facets of One's Life at CHI 2010},
  month_numeric = {4}
}

People use web-based services extensively, but have few tools at their disposal to view and monitor their past uses. We present a visualization tool that pulls user data from Google services such as Blogger, Calendar, and Documents, and shows users who they have interacted with and what content they have shared. The goal of this research is to understand what people are able to report about their own past behavior and to design a tool to support self-monitoring and reflection. We also consider questions of privacy, data synthesis, and social visualization.