ActivitySpace: a remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs

Lingfeng Bao; Deheng Ye; Zhenchang Xing; Xin Xia; Xinyu Wang

doi:10.1109/ASE.2015.90

ActivitySpace: a remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs

Lingfeng Bao, Deheng Ye, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, Xinyu Wang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

13 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Developers' daily work produces, transforms, and communicates cross-cutting information across applications, including IDEs, emails, Q&A sites, Twitter, and many others. However, these applications function independently of one another. Even though each application has their own effective information management mechanisms, cross-cutting information across separate applications creates a problem of information fragmentation, forcing developers to manually track, correlate, and re-find cross-cutting information across applications. In this paper, we present ActivitySpace, a remembrance framework that unobtrusively tracks and analyze a developer's daily work in separate applications, and provides various semantic and episodic UIs that help developers correlate and re-find cross-cutting information across applications based on information content, time and place of his/her activities. Through a user study of 8 participants, we demonstrate how ActivitySpace helps to tackle information fragmentation problem in developers' daily work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	9–13 November 2015 Lincoln, Nebraska
Editors	Myra Cohen, Lars Grunske, Michael Whalen
Place of Publication	Piscataway NJ USA
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	864-869
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509000241
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.2015.90
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	Automated Software Engineering Conference 2015 - Lincoln, United States of America Duration: 9 Nov 2015 → 13 Nov 2015 Conference number: 30th http://ase-conferences.org/ase/past/ase2015/#tab-main (Conference website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.5555/3343886 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Automated Software Engineering Conference 2015
Abbreviated title	ASE 2015
Country	United States of America
City	Lincoln
Period	9/11/15 → 13/11/15
Internet address	http://ase-conferences.org/ase/past/ase2015/#tab-main (Conference website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.5555/3343886 (Proceedings)

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Bao, L., Ye, D., Xing, Z., Xia, X., & Wang, X. (2015). ActivitySpace: a remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs. In M. Cohen, L. Grunske, & M. Whalen (Eds.), Proceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 9–13 November 2015 Lincoln, Nebraska (pp. 864-869). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.2015.90

Bao, Lingfeng ; Ye, Deheng ; Xing, Zhenchang ; Xia, Xin ; Wang, Xinyu. / ActivitySpace : a remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs. Proceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 9–13 November 2015 Lincoln, Nebraska . editor / Myra Cohen ; Lars Grunske ; Michael Whalen. Piscataway NJ USA : IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015. pp. 864-869

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Bao, L, Ye, D, Xing, Z, Xia, X & Wang, X 2015, ActivitySpace: a remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs. in M Cohen, L Grunske & M Whalen (eds), Proceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 9–13 November 2015 Lincoln, Nebraska . IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 864-869, Automated Software Engineering Conference 2015, Lincoln, United States of America, 9/11/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.2015.90

ActivitySpace : a remembrance framework to support interapplication information needs. / Bao, Lingfeng; Ye, Deheng; Xing, Zhenchang; Xia, Xin; Wang, Xinyu.

Proceedings - 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: 9–13 November 2015 Lincoln, Nebraska . ed. / Myra Cohen; Lars Grunske; Michael Whalen. Piscataway NJ USA : IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015. p. 864-869.

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