Dynamic coordinated email visualization

Abstract

Many computer users receive hundreds (if not thousands) of emails per week; users often keep these emails and\nhave many years of personal emails archived: users use their stored emails to manage appointments, to-do lists,\nand store useful information. In this paper we present an interactive email visualization tool (Mailview) that\nutilizes filter and coordination techniques to explore this archived data. The tool enables users to analyze and\nvisualize hundreds of stored emails, it displays the emails on time-dependent plots enabling users to observe\ntrends over time and perceive emails with similar features. Interaction is an important aspect of finding meaning\nwithin information, hence the tool utilizes focus+context views, dynamic filters, detail-on-demand techniques\nand coordinated views, finally, we discuss various methods that enable the system to be designed such that it can\ndisplay hundreds of objects at interactive rates.