In order to help address problems of information overload in digital
imagery task domains, we have developed an interactive approach to the
capture and reuse of image context information. Our framework models
different aspects of the relationship between images and the domain
tasks that they support by monitoring the interactive manipulation and
annotation of task-relevant imagery. In particular, a strong focus on
task context serves to ground image annotations in domain specific
goals. This contrasts with prevalent annotation schemes that focus on
what individual images contain but that provide no context for which,
if any, of those aspects are important to users. Our work attempts to
leverage a measure of the user's intentions with regard to tasks that
they address. We analyze human-computer interaction information that
enables us to infer why image contents are important in a particular
context and how specific images have been used to address particular
domain goals.