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Grad school
personal information management wearable computing limited output devices: speech synthesis, small-screen output the effect of automatic context-sensitive hyperlinking mac os x
Statement of Purpose
- College experience: wearable computing environment, speech synthesis
- Research experience: distributed computing system, personal information management
- Goals, full-time
- Why this university is a good choice
- After MS, what next?
5-minute talk
Project description
Context-aware just-in-time information capture and retrieval
(Making it easier to remember)
Current personal information managers
- Not linked
Work plan
- An XML database for semi-structured notes
- An XML database for hyperlinked notes
- Flexible publishing of XML streams
- Determining context across applications
- Resolving cross-application uniform resource indicators
- A context-aware cross-application framework for just-in-time information capture
- Context-sensitive shared annotations
- Information retrieval and analysis of hyperlinked annotations
Project components
Title
Context-aware just-in-time information capture and retrieval
Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (http://discs.ateneo.net)
Ateneo de Manila University
April 1, 2004
Faculty research plan presentation
Sandra Jean Chua
Outline
Presentation outline Introduction and motivation Specialization opportunities in
Information capture just-in-time Information retrieval implicit queries information visualization Methodology Project components Validation framework (supporting tools required) Work plan Status of work Related projects
Introduction and motivation
Standalone
Personal information managers
Context-aware
Just-in-time
Information capture
Information retrieval
Specialization opportunities
Information capture
Information retrieval
Implicit queries
Information visualization
Methodology
Project components
Validation framework
(Supporting tools required)Work plan
Status of work
Related projects
Other notes
Over the last year, I have been the primary maintainer of a personal information manager written in Lisp for GNU Emacs, an extensible editor available on all major platforms. This planner was originally written by John Wiegley, a software developer in the United States, who passed maintainership of planner and related modules to me after I actively contributed patches and new features.
I'd like to talk about the unique features of this personal information manager, and my plan for developing it into a full-fledged research project in the areas of knowledge management, information capture, and information retrieval.
Let me first share my experiences with personal information managers like Microsoft Outlook and Ximian Evolution. Although it may surprise some people here, I once used to live all of my (computing) life within Outlook. That is, I used it to manage my tasks, my e-mail, and my calendar. I even experimented with its Journal feature, although I found it to be less useful than I had hoped. I found both it and Ximian Evolution limiting. It was cumbersome to create a task based on a message, cumbersome to work with external applications, and impossible to use without a mouse or on a different platform. I found the structure of these personal information managers restricting in that they forced me to think carefully about the information I wanted to record before recording it. The process of switching to another application and navigating to the correct window not only distracted me only from the information I needed to record--a task or note created in response to a received phone call, for example--but it also distracted me from the work I was doing at the moment. Simply put, these personal information managers got in my way.
Planner, the personal information manager I maintain, works with semi-structured text with simple markup rules that allow me to easily specify hyperlinks.
Now we come to the important part: context-aware just-in-time information capture.
I and several dozens of people around the world use Planner as part of our daily Emacs use.
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com .
