HCI AND PERSONAL

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Stephanie Weis

AGENDA Overview of personal information

management and HCI Solution 1: Tagging Solution 2: Activity Based Computing Other Solutions

BACKGROUND Knowledge work Sensemaking

HCI IMPLICATIONS Tools Activity management Information management

HISTORY 1945 – Bush and Memex 1983 – Bannon, Cypher, Greenspan, and

Monty 2009 – First user-subjective design

scheme

PRESENT DAY PROBLEMS File organization analogy Disconnects

TOOL REQUIREMENTS Models human association and

conceptualization Must be fast and simple to use Must fit flow and style of the user

SOLUTION 1: TAGGING

TAGGING: ABOUT When to use? Support disruptions Sharing

TAGGING: EXAMPLES Flickr Delicious Wordpress Remember

the Milk Windows 7

TAGGING: RESEARCH RESULTS

General

Tag usage• Short term• Central repository• Filtering• Meta-structures

TAGGING: RESEARCH RESULTS

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Tag Triggers• Project Lifecycle

TAGGING: BENEFITS Easy access to information Aids activity management

TAGGING: ISSUES No easy-to-use mainstream tools Tag management Value emerges over the long-term

SOLUTION 2: ACTIVITY BASED COMPUTING (ABC)

ABC: ABOUT

ABC: EXAMPLES Many prototypes, few deployments

ABC: RESEARCH RESULTS Useful Flexible New organization strategies

ABC: BENEFITS Better task awareness Simpler multitasking More natural organization Improved online collaboration

ABC: ISSUES More challenging to adopt Activity management Difficult to implement

ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS Knowledge harvesting E-mail, calendars, task managers Computer notebooks Wikis

QUESTIONS?