"Stuff goes into the computer and doesn't come out": a cross-tool study of personal information management Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:176884, abstract = {This paper reports a study of Personal Information Management (PIM), which advances research in two ways: (1) rather than focusing on one tool, we collected cross-tool data relating to file, email and web bookmark usage for each participant, and (2) we collected longitudinal data for a subset of the participants. We found that individuals employ a rich variety of strategies both within and across PIM tools, and we present new strategy classifications that reflect this behaviour. We discuss synergies and differences between tools that may be useful in guiding the design of tool integration. Our longitudinal data provides insight into how PIM behaviour evolves over time, and suggests how the supporting nature of PIM discourages reflection by users on their strategies. We discuss how the promotion of some reflection by tools and organizations may benefit users.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Boardman, Richard and Sasse, M. Angela}, booktitle = {CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {176884}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=985766}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985766}, doi = {10.1145/985692.985766}, isbn = {1-58113-702-8}, keywords = {information, managemenr, personal, social, software}, location = {Vienna, Austria}, pages = {583--590}, posted-at = {2006-01-24 14:07:46}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {"Stuff goes into the computer and doesn't come out": a cross-tool study of personal information management}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985766}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:176884 L3 - citeulike-article-id:176884 N2 - This paper reports a study of Personal Information Management (PIM), which advances research in two ways: (1) rather than focusing on one tool, we collected cross-tool data relating to file, email and web bookmark usage for each participant, and (2) we collected longitudinal data for a subset of the participants. We found that individuals employ a rich variety of strategies both within and across PIM tools, and we present new strategy classifications that reflect this behaviour. We discuss synergies and differences between tools that may be useful in guiding the design of tool integration. Our longitudinal data provides insight into how PIM behaviour evolves over time, and suggests how the supporting nature of PIM discourages reflection by users on their strategies. We discuss how the promotion of some reflection by tools and organizations may benefit users. CY - Vienna, Austria SN - 1-58113-702-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 590 TI - "Stuff goes into the computer and doesn't come out": a cross-tool study of personal information management PB - ACM T2 - CHI '04: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 583 KW - information KW - managemenr KW - personal KW - social KW - software AU - Boardman, Richard AU - Sasse, Angela PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985692.985766 ER -