LifeView
Akhil Mathur, Anirban Majumder, Samik Datta, Sreedal Menon, Shipra Malhotra, Ankur Dahiya · 2012
The majority of past HCI research on Lifelogging has focused on using specialized capture devices such as the Microsoft SenseCam for recording our life experiences visually. However, we also record many of our daily life events in a textual form on popular platforms like Facebook or using our smartphones. Such primarily textual lifelogs can also potentially help us in reliving our past memories and sharing them with friends. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of LifeView, a tool for visualizing such primarily textual lifelogs for the purposes of Sentimental Recall and Sharing. We propose to depict life events using cartoons, and claim that it will result in a better recall experience. We also propose that linking the various life interactions based on appropriate context will be useful when people browse their lifelogs. Two within-subject user experiments are presented to validate our design -- results show that a) users prefer cartoon abstractions over the actual lifelog data, and b) contextual linking of life events is useful for goal-oriented navigation and sharing.