ActivitySpace: A remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs

Lingfeng Bao, Deheng Ye, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, Xinyu Wang

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Abstract

Developers' daily work produces, transforms, and communicates cross-cutting information across applications, including IDEs, emails, Q&A sites, Twitter, and many others. However, these applications function independently of one another. Even though each application has their own effective information management mechanisms, cross-cutting information across separate applications creates a problem of information fragmentation, forcing developers to manually track, correlate, and re-find cross-cutting information across applications. In this paper, we present ActivitySpace, a remembrance framework that unobtrusively tracks and analyze a developer's daily work in separate applications, and provides various semantic and episodic UIs that help developers correlate and re-find cross-cutting information across applications based on information content, time and place of his/her activities. Through a user study of 8 participants, we demonstrate how ActivitySpace helps to tackle information fragmentation problem in developers' daily work. Tool website: http://baolingfeng.weebly.com/ase2015-demonstration.html.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages864-869
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509000241
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2015 - Lincoln, United States
Duration: 9 Nov 201513 Nov 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2015

Conference

Conference30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLincoln
Period9/11/1513/11/15

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