Helping users to recover from interruptions in audiovisual active reading: An interface for reflexive use of traces

Active reading is an activity commonly practised in the research, education and media. It is a creative process in which a reader manually describes, critics, and builds an analysis on the object of his reading. Active reading of audiovisual documents is a challenge because of the inherent temporality of the video: it notably implies managing attentional conflicts between the temporality of the activity and that of the document. Such conflicts often lead to interruptions of the tasks the user was carrying. In this paper, we present our ongoing work on active reading of audiovisual documents towards activity recovery and our interface for visualization and reflexive use of traces. Our approach is based on active reading data and activity modeling so as to present the user with real time traces of his activity, and means to interact with them.