Indexing and visualizing digital memories through personal email archive

The research work presented in this paper tackles the personal information overload phenomenon. Our purpose is to offer a set of interactive visualization techniques allowing one’s personal digital memory to be organized and overviewed. This system will provide easy browsing, guiding towards the wanted piece of information and allow a free exploration of the personal information space. Three main axis of research are involved: (1) emails clustering to organize personal information, (2) cross-media alignments to connect clustered emails with personal information, and (3) information visualization techniques, to provide interactive means to navigate through personal information. As an alternative to the presented state-of-the-art works, our approach to these challenges takes the personal email archive as entry point into the personal information space. We finally present the work done during the first year of this research and the roadmap for the future.