Total Recall Survey Report Enrico Bertini, Denis Lalanne University of Fribourg Abstract The overall objective of the TotalRecall project is to support humans’ memory in the professional life, and more specifically to support humans in remembering information or documents exchanged during meetings, tasks to do, or for preparing their presentations for a following meeting. In TotalRecall we want to use the implicit structure of our mailbox as a start to build personal access to meeting recordings, based on each individual user personal interest. Towards this vision we have started the first phase of the project collecting information about how people manage meetings and time using digital artefacts. We have designed and performed a survey on the web inviting people to answer from a variety of sources. The document presents the survey and provides a preliminary analysis of the results. The Survey The survey is made of three main sections: • Profile Information: To understand the profile of the person answering the questions. It is necessary to segment the answers according to different profiles. In this section we didn’t ask any sensible information but only relevant features like the domain in which the respondent work. • Habits in managing meetings: To understand what kind of meetings the person attends and how he manages them. • Meetings and technology: To understand how technology takes place in the management of meetings and what role emails play in this context. We have sent the survey through various mailing lists. The final number of answers received is 118. The majority of responses come from people in the field of computer science. The population covers people working in research institutions as well as in business areas. The questionnaire contains a mix of multi-choice and open-ended questions. We have started an analysis of the collected answers, drawing both quantitative and qualitative results. In the following we present the summary of results obtained with the questionnaire. Results User Profile The distribution of the people who participated to the survey is the following: