What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1106150, abstract = {This study aims at finding out which attributes people actually recall about their own documents (electronic and paper), and what are the characteristics of their recall, in order to provide recommendations on how to improve tools allowing users to retrieve their electronic files more effectively and more easily. An experiment was conducted with fourteen participants at their workplace. They were asked first to recall features about one (or several) of their own work documents, and secondly to retrieve these documents. The difficulties encountered by the participants in retrieving their electronic documents support the need for better retrieval tools. More specifically, results of the recall task indicate which attributes are candidates for facilitating file retrieval and how search tools should use these attributes.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Brude, Tristan B. and Scapin, Dominique L.}, booktitle = {IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces}, citeulike-article-id = {1106150}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1216295.1216319}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1216295.1216319}, doi = {10.1145/1216295.1216319}, isbn = {1-59593-481-2}, keywords = {ui}, location = {Honolulu, Hawaii, USA}, pages = {102--111}, posted-at = {2007-02-14 00:32:36}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1216295.1216319}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1106150 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1106150 N2 - This study aims at finding out which attributes people actually recall about their own documents (electronic and paper), and what are the characteristics of their recall, in order to provide recommendations on how to improve tools allowing users to retrieve their electronic files more effectively and more easily. An experiment was conducted with fourteen participants at their workplace. They were asked first to recall features about one (or several) of their own work documents, and secondly to retrieve these documents. The difficulties encountered by the participants in retrieving their electronic documents support the need for better retrieval tools. More specifically, results of the recall task indicate which attributes are candidates for facilitating file retrieval and how search tools should use these attributes. CY - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA SN - 1-59593-481-2 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 111 TI - What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools PB - ACM T2 - IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces SP - 102 KW - ui AU - Brude, Tristan AU - Scapin, Dominique PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1216295.1216319 ER -