Personal information management / edited by William Jones and Jaime Teevan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, William P., 1952-

Teevan, Jaime.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal information management.

Physical Description:

vi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007]

Summary:

In an ideal world, everyone would always have the right information, in the right form, with the right context, right when they needed it. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. This book looks at how people in the real world currently manage to store and process the massive amounts of information that overload their senses and their systems-daily, and discusses how tools can help bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal. Personal information management (PIM) is the practice and the study of the activities people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and retrieve information for everyday use. PIM is a growing area of interest as we all strive for better use of our limited personal resources of time, money, and energy, as well as greater workplace efficiency and productivity.

One challenge is that personal information is currently fragmented across electronic documents, email messages, paper documents, digital photographs, music, videos, instant messages, and so on. Each type of information is organized and used differently to complete different tasks and to fulfill disparate roles and responsibilities in an individual's life. Existing PIM tools are partly responsible for this fragmentation. They can also be part of the solution that brings information together again. A major contribution of this book is the integrative treatment of PIM-related research.

Contents:

Part I Understanding Personal Information Management

2 How People Find Personal Information / Jaime Teevan, Robert Capra, Manuel Perez-Quinones 22

3 How People Keep and Organize Personal Information / William Jones 35

4 How People Manage Information over a Lifetime / Catherine C. Marshall 57

5 Naturalistic Approaches for Understanding PIM / Charles M. Naumer, Karen E. Fisher 76

Part II Solutions for Personal Information Management

6 Save Everything: Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store / Desney Tan, Emma Berry, Mary Czerwinski, Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell, Steve Hodges, Narinder Kapur, Brian Meyers, Nuria Oliver, George Robertson, Ken Wood 90

7 Structure Everything / Tiziana Catarci, Luna Dong, Alon Halevy, Antonella Poggi 108

8 Unify Everything: It's All the Same to Me / David R. Karger 127

9 Search Everything / Daniel M. Russell, Steve Lawrence 153

10 Everything through Email / Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, Jacek Gwizdka 167

11 Understanding What Works: Evaluating PIM Tools / Diane Kelly, Jaime Teevan 190

Part III PIM and the Individual

12 Individual Differences / Jacek Gwizdka, Mark Chignell 206

13 Personal Health Information Management / Anne Moen 221

Part IV PIM and Other People

14 Group Information Management / Wayne G. Lutters, Mark S. Ackerman, Xiaomu Zhou 236

15 Management of Personal Information Disclosure: The Interdependence of Privacy, Security, and Trust / Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, Carolyn Brodie 249

16 Privacy and Public Records / Michael Shamos 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-314) and index.

ISBN:

9780295987552

9780295987378

0295987553

0295987375

OCLC:

86109888