Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:105087, abstract = {Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information. We describe the design and evaluation of a system, called Stuff I've Seen (SIS), that facilitates information re-use. This is accomplished in two ways. First, the system provides a unified index of information that a person has seen, whether it was seen as email, web page, document, appointment, etc. Second, because the information has been seen before, rich contextual cues can be used in the search interface. The system has been used internally by more than 230 employees. We report on both qualitative and quantitative aspects of system use. Initial findings show that time and people are important retrieval cues. Users find information more easily using SIS, and use other search tools less frequently after installation.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Dumais, Susan and Cutrell, Edward and Cadiz, J. J. and Jancke, Gavin and Sarin, Raman and Robbins, Daniel C.}, booktitle = {SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval}, citeulike-article-id = {105087}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=860435.860451}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/860435.860451}, doi = {10.1145/860435.860451}, isbn = {1-58113-646-3}, keywords = {desktop, hci, ir, ricardo, visual-information-seeking}, location = {Toronto, Canada}, pages = {72--79}, posted-at = {2007-09-18 16:57:28}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/860435.860451}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:105087 L3 - citeulike-article-id:105087 N2 - Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information. We describe the design and evaluation of a system, called Stuff I've Seen (SIS), that facilitates information re-use. This is accomplished in two ways. First, the system provides a unified index of information that a person has seen, whether it was seen as email, web page, document, appointment, etc. Second, because the information has been seen before, rich contextual cues can be used in the search interface. The system has been used internally by more than 230 employees. We report on both qualitative and quantitative aspects of system use. Initial findings show that time and people are important retrieval cues. Users find information more easily using SIS, and use other search tools less frequently after installation. CY - Toronto, Canada SN - 1-58113-646-3 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 79 TI - Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use PB - ACM T2 - SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval SP - 72 KW - desktop KW - hci KW - ir KW - ricardo KW - visual-information-seeking AU - Dumais, Susan AU - Cutrell, Edward AU - Cadiz, JJ AU - Jancke, Gavin AU - Sarin, Raman AU - Robbins, Daniel PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/860435.860451 ER -