Relating Documents via User Activity: The Missing Link
Venue
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, ACM (2008), pp. 389-392
Publication Year
2008
Authors
Elin Rønby Pedersen, David W McDonald
BibTeX
Abstract
In this paper we describe a system for creating and exposing relationships between
documents: a user’s interaction with digital objects (like documents) is
interpreted as links – to be discovered and maintained by the system. Such
relationships are created automatically, requiring no priming by the user. Using a
very simple set of heuristics we demonstrate the uniquely useful relationships that
can be established between documents that have been touched by the user.
Furthermore, this mechanism for relationship building is media agnostic, thus
discovering relationships that would not be found by conventional content based
approaches. We describe a proof-of-concept implementation of this basic idea and
discuss a couple of natural expansions of the scope of user activity monitoring
