Automatic Association of Personal Documents on the Cloud

The management of the data collected over a lifetime is a growing problem. This problem is outlined by the growth of files in our personal inventory, which causes increasing difficulty to find, retrieve and organise files. As part of an EPSRC1 sponsored project, we move into investigate the automatic association of files by user behaviour. User behaviour is defined by how users interact with desktop applications and files through mouse motions. To evaluate the relationships built on by mouse actions and time, we constructed a windows based prototype tracking system and relationship builder FRUBO (File Relationship User Behaviour Ontology) that tracks the mouse actions passively. The mouse actions are then translated into series of time events and positions to build relationship R between a file or application measured when the user switches between them.