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.

Management.

Physical Description:

vi, 334 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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, and discusses how tools can help bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal.Personal information management (PIM) is the study and practice 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.Personal information is currently fragmented across electronic documents, email messages, paper documents, digital photographs, music, videos, instant messages, and so on. Each form of information is organized and used 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 its integrative treatment of PIM-related research.The book grows out of a workshop on PIM sponsored by the National Science Foundation, held in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. Scholars from major universities and researchers from companies such as Microsoft Research, Google, and IBM offer approaches to conceptual problems of information management. In doing so, they provide a framework for thinking about PIM as an area for future research and innovation.

Contents:

How people find personal information / Jaime Teevan, Robert Capra, and Manuel Perez-Quiñones

How people keep and organize personal information / William Jones

How people manage information over a lifetime / Catherine C. Marshall

Naturalistic approaches for understanding PIM / Charles M. Naumer and Karen E. Fisher

Save everything : supporting human memory with a personal digital lifetime store / Desney Tan ... [et al.]

Structure everything / Tiziana Catarci ... [et al.]

Unify everything : it's all the same to me / David R. Karger

Search everything / Daniel M. Russell and Steve Lawrence

Everything through email / Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, and Jacek Gwizdka

Understanding what works : evaluating PIM tools / Diane Kelly and Jaime Teevan

Individual differences / Jacek Gwizdka and Mark Chignell

Personal health information management / Anne Moen

Group information management / Wayne G. Lutters, Mark S. Ackerman, and Xiaomu Zhou

Management of personal information disclosure : the interdependence of privacy, security, and trust / Claire-Marie Karat, John Karat, and Carolyn Brodie

Privacy and public records / Michael Shamos

Conclusion / William Jones and Jaime Teevan.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

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ISBN:

9780295800684

0295800682

OCLC:

701095630