Abstract

Continuing advances in hardware technology have enabled the proliferation of faster, cheaper, and more capable personal computers. Users of all backgrounds rely on their computers to handle ever-expanding information, communication, and computation needs. As users spend more time interacting with their computers, it is becoming increasingly important to archive and later search the knowledge, ideas and information that they have viewed through their computers. However, existing state-of-the-art web and desktop search tools fail to provide a suitable solution, as they focus on static, accessible documents in isolation. Thus, finding the information one has viewed among the ever-increasing and chaotic sea of data available from a computer remains a challenge. This dissertation introduces DejaView, a personal virtual computer recorder that enhances personal computers with the ability to process display-centric content to help users with all the information they see through their computers. DejaView

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