Lightweight tagging expands information and activity management practices Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4695410, abstract = {Could people use tagging to manage day-to-day work in their personal computing environment? Could tagging be sufficiently generic and lightweight to support diverse ways of working and, perhaps, support new and efficient practices for managing applications and accessing documents? We investigate these issues by implementing the TAGtivity system that enables users to tag resources in the context of their ongoing work. We deployed TAGtivity and studied users' tagging practices in their actual work places over a three week period. Our analysis of interviews and logs reveals that affordances of the TAGtivity system supported users in a variety of information and activity management tasks. These include new practices for managing emerging activities and ephemeral information and accessing documents across application data silos.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Oleksik, Gerard and Wilson, Max L. and Tashman, Craig and Rodrigues, Eduarda M. and Kazai, Gabriella and Smyth, Gavin and Frayling, Natasa M. and Jones, Rachel}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4695410}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518746}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518746}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518746}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {information\_behaviour, pim, practices, tagging, tools, work}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {279--288}, posted-at = {2009-06-04 10:08:42}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Lightweight tagging expands information and activity management practices}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518746}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4695410 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4695410 N2 - Could people use tagging to manage day-to-day work in their personal computing environment? Could tagging be sufficiently generic and lightweight to support diverse ways of working and, perhaps, support new and efficient practices for managing applications and accessing documents? We investigate these issues by implementing the TAGtivity system that enables users to tag resources in the context of their ongoing work. We deployed TAGtivity and studied users' tagging practices in their actual work places over a three week period. Our analysis of interviews and logs reveals that affordances of the TAGtivity system supported users in a variety of information and activity management tasks. These include new practices for managing emerging activities and ephemeral information and accessing documents across application data silos. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 288 TI - Lightweight tagging expands information and activity management practices PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 279 KW - information_behaviour KW - pim KW - practices KW - tagging KW - tools KW - work AU - Oleksik, Gerard AU - Wilson, Max AU - Tashman, Craig AU - Rodrigues, Eduarda AU - Kazai, Gabriella AU - Smyth, Gavin AU - Frayling, Natasa AU - Jones, Rachel PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518746 ER -