Managing Activities
Managing Activities
Users create and modify data as a function of activities they are involved in. However, most desktop management systems provide an object oriented view of a computer, where the emphasis is on describing the information relevant to an object. However, objects may be related to each other in different ways and in different contexts. We develop methods to explore objects on a desktop through activities. Our methods integrate discovered relationships between data objects based on their participation in different activities as well as other properties. Our activity model is well suited to support a query language that is able to alter the context and the definition of an activity to easily visualize complex relationships in data. We show that this new organization makes many new interesting desktop functionalities a reality.
Related Papers:
On Querying and Exploring Activities on a User's Desktop, Sibel Adali, Shawn Pearce and Maria-Luisa Sapino, appears in IEEE Workshop on Electronic Chronicles (eChronicle06)
An activity based data model. Sibel Adali and Maria-Luisa Sapino, appears in First Semantic Desktop Workshop (SemDesk05)
Monday, May 21, 2007