Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Email overload: exploring personal information management of email
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Synchronizing clipboards of multiple computers
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Partitioning digital worlds: focal and peripheral awareness in multiple monitor use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
User Centered System Design; New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
User Centered System Design; New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Synchronous gestures for multiple persons and computers
Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Computer
Reincarnating PCs with portable SoulPads
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Activity-based computing: support for mobility and collaboration in ubiquitous computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile kits and laptop trays: managing multiple devices in mobile information work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Quality versus quantity: e-mail-centric task management and its relation with overload
Human-Computer Interaction
Towards seamless mobility on pervasive hardware
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Portable, but not mobile: a study of wireless laptops in the home
PERVASIVE'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Pervasive computing
Multimedia adaptation in ubiquitous environments: benefits of structured multimedia documents
Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Document engineering
An infrastructure for extending applications' user experiences across multiple personal devices
Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The implications of program genres for the design of social television systems
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and video
Enhancing social sharing of videos: fragment, annotate, enrich, and share
MM '08 Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
Codex: a dual screen tablet computer
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Device ecology mapper: a tool for studying users' ecosystems of interactive artifacts
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Bringing the television experience to other media in the home: an ethnographic study
Proceedings of the seventh european conference on European interactive television conference
Fragment, tag, enrich, and send: Enhancing social sharing of video
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
"It's Just Easier with the Phone" --- A Diary Study of Internet Access from Cell Phones
Pervasive '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Working Overtime: Patterns of Smartphone and PC Usage in the Day of an Information Worker
Pervasive '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Exploring Cross-Device Web Use on PCs and Mobile Devices
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
GurunGo: coupling personal computers and mobile devices through mobile data types
Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
Access Control for Home Data Sharing: Attitudes, Needs and Practices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile taskflow in context: a screenshot study of smartphone usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enabling cross-device interaction with web history
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What do you bring to the table?: investigations of a collaborative workspace
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Phone n' Computer: teaming up an information appliance with a PC
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Supporting unplanned activities through cross-device interaction
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
Deep shot: a framework for migrating tasks across devices using mobile phone cameras
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Planning, apps, and the high-end smartphone: exploring the landscape of modern cross-device reaccess
Pervasive'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Pervasive computing
Myngle: unifying and filtering web content for unplanned access between multiple personal devices
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Smart phone use by non-mobile business users
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Policy expressivity in the Anzere personal cloud
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Push and pull of web user interfaces in multi-device environments
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Co-activity manager: integrating activity-based collaboration into the desktop interface
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
A logical framework for multi-device user interfaces
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
That syncing feeling: early user experiences with the cloud
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Supporting research collaboration through bi-level file synchronization
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Efficient data sharing for multi-device multimedia applications
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-device App Middleware
Interactive customization of ubiquitous Web applications
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Characterizing and supporting cross-device search tasks
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Evaluating user preferences for video transfer methods from a mobile device to a TV screen
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
ActivityDesk: multi-device configuration work using an interactive desk
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Activity-centric support for ad hoc knowledge work: a case study of co-activity manager
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A field study of multi-device workflows in distributed workspaces
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
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The number of computing devices that people use is growing. To gain a better understanding of why and how people use multiple devices, we interviewed 27 people from academia and industry. From these interviews we distill four primary findings. First, associating a user's activities with a particular device is problematic for multiple device users because many activities span multiple devices. Second, device use varies by user and circumstance; users assign different roles to devices both by choice and by constraint. Third, users in industry want to separate work and personal activities across work and personal devices, but they have difficulty doing so in practice Finally, users employ a variety of techniques for accessing information across devices, but there is room for improvement: participants reported managing information across their devices as the most challenging aspect of using multiple devices. We suggest opportunities to improve the user experience by focusing on the user rather than the applications and devices; making devices aware of their roles; and providing lighter-weight methods for transferring information, including synchronization services that engender more trust from users.