Visualizing electronic mail

As the number of electronic messages continues to grow, information visualization tools become increasingly important to support users in the complexity of managing the large amount of information they receive. This paper presents a visualization approach to support e-mail browsing as well as querying. A new clustering mechanism is presented which, based on the hierarchical nature of domain names, provides an automatic classification of electronic messages. This representation is combined with a temporal visualization that supports browsing, Boolean searching and threading operations.