Many computer users receive hundreds (if not thousands) of emails per week; users often keep these emails and have many years of personal emails archived: users use their stored emails to manage appointments, to-do lists, and store useful information. In this paper we present an interactive email visualization tool (Mailview) that utilizes filter and coordination techniques to explore this arch...

Although there are different tools and technologies available to prevent attacks on privacy when online applications are used, few tools are available for detection of actions that violate privacy agreements. The loss of privacy when third parties obtain email addresses of users without their consent can be followed by unsolicited emails – known as spam – sent on the open communication channel....

It has been almost two decades since the beginning of the web. This means that the web is no longer just a technology of the present, but also, a record of our past. Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed description of our personal and professional history. This thesis explores the world of email communication by introducing Immersi...