ReActivity

This project is finished since 2011

Research goals

• to explore how to capture and visualize user activity
• to enable scientists and groups of scientists to reflect upon, interact with and improve their research processes

Our goal is to develop:

• Sophisticated strategies for logging activity with bilateral links between on-line and off-line data
• Common data formats that interoperate across platforms (PC, Mac, Unix, other equipment)
• Innovative techniques to capture events triggered by the user activity, both low-level and high-level while maintaining the relations across levels
• Powerful methods for visualising across multiple scales and interacting with the results

ReActivity phases

• Log platform and infrastructure for data collection and aggregation
  • Create a common format & share experiences
  • Apply our own visualisation and interaction tools to the logged data
• Visualisation and instrumentation of scientific data logs
  • Visualisation of raw data from phase I scaled to month-long or longer logs
  • Explore strategies for meaningful sampling of data with smooth interaction and navigation
• Mining of desktop data and interactions with visualised activities
  • Design highly interactive tools for scientists to understand and interact with their past activities
  • Create high-level interactive reflexive views that can be manipulated and reused

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  Jean-Daniel Fekete
  Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist working in the field of Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. He received his PhD from the Paris-Sud 11 University in 1996. He obtained his Habilitation in 2005, entitled ...
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  Wendy Mackay
  I am currently a Research Director with INRIA Saclay in France, currently on sabbatical at Stanford University. I run a research group called in|situ|. Our focus is on the design of innovative interactive systems that truly meet the needs of ...