Information visualization project : email visualization

Information visualization is a graphical representation of abstract data to reinforce human cognition. Such powerful tools is especially important in today’s world especially when email users tend to accumulate extensive email repositories. These email data contains valuable personal communication a...

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Main Author: Lau, Jie Ting
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59786
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Information visualization is a graphical representation of abstract data to reinforce human cognition. Such powerful tools is especially important in today’s world especially when email users tend to accumulate extensive email repositories. These email data contains valuable personal communication and relationship patterns that are difficult to discover through standard email interface. This project presents a visualization that portrays relationship using email archives. Visualization techniques such as stacked graph and theme river are employed to show the temporal rhythms of interactions with individual. The user will have an overview of their email habits and relationship developed over a period of time. They will also be able to reminisce the tide and turn of their relationships over time. This result is an eye-catching visualization, which can be handled effortlessly by user and provide user with the ability to reflect their past and construct stories for sharing.