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    "pk": 25722,
    "title": "Restoring the Context of Interrupted Work with Desktop Thumbnails",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Knowledge work is frequently interrupted. Interruptions enable\ncollaboration and bring timely information, but they disrupt\nthe fragile context of ongoing activities. Computers, now\nubiquitous in knowledge work, have improved in their ability\nto track and restore digital context (documents and files), but\nthey do a poor job of helping users restore mental context: the\nideas, intentions, and motivations behind their work. Thumbnail\nimages are an efficient way to help computer users refind\ndocuments; we ask if they can also be used to restore\nmental context. We tested how three manipulations to thumbnails\nof personal computer screenshots impact their ability to\nhelp viewers recognize past activities and recall accurate and\ndetailed context. In a 2-week study we found that thumbnails\nof portions of the screen need to be larger than thumbnails of\nthe entire screen for successful activity recognition and that\nstatic screenshots prompted more accurate contextual recall\nthan animations.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "interruptions; memory; thumbnails; activitybased\ncomputing"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pt4c25g",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Adam",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rule",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Karen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Boyd",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jim",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hollan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Aurelien",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tabard",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Université Lyon",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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