C-mail : Visualizing E-mail Communications with Comics

KURAMOCHI Yoko, FUJISHIRO Issei, ICHIKAWA Yoshihiko

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C-mail : コミックを用いた電子メールコミュニケーションの可視化

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We have been developing a system, termed C-mail, that utilizes the form of comics to represent electronic mail (E-mail) communications. The C-mail system relies heavily on a novel technique for combining multiple E-mail documents based primarily on their quotation relationships. As for comic rendition, we have borrowed a number of techniques invented for Comic Chat(D.Kurlander, et al.: 1996), which generates comics to depict on-line graphical chats. C-mail can be viewed not only as an enhanced Internet communication environment compared with the conventional E-mail, but also a sort of information visualizer, because of its capability for converting documents into 2D graphics. This paper first provides overview of C-mail, differentiating the concept from Comic Chat. Then, the architecture, functionality, and implementation aspects of the current C-mail system are briefly described. A simple example is used to illustrate the effectiveness of the system. Further potential of C-mail is also discussed.

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IPSJ SIG Notes

IPSJ SIG Notes 85 19-24, 1997-04-18

Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

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CRID: 1573387451922386816

NII Article ID: 110002780711

NII Book ID: AN10100541

ISSN: 09196072

Text Lang: ja

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