Over the last decades, personal computing devices have become essential for many areas of our lives. They support us with work-related and personal projects and leisure activities such as online shopping, social media, or watching Netflix.
Without proper management, these spheres of different projects, activities, and personal matters compound and clutter the digital workspace, which might result in unnecessary high cognitive load, attention residue, and increased self-interruptions.

This project explores creative, lightweight, and semi-automated approaches to create, manage, and easily switch between co-existing digital spheres.

Task description

• Perform a literature review to learn about similar approaches.
  Implement an application to monitor user interactions with the file system, applications, and the brower and gather usage data on a small scale.
• Work on machine learning models to infer the current working sphere based on interactions with system resources or classify these resources given a set of digital spheres.
• Implement a prototype approach to create, manage, and access co-existing digital spheres.
• Run a user study to evaluate your approach.