Studying utility of personal usage-history: a software tool for enabling empirical research

  • Authors:
  • Kimmo Wideroos;Samuli Pekkola

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, Finland;Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Managing personal information space and working context is complicated in computerized environment. One well-known cause for the problem is that digital information is superficially fragmented into different data types and structures. Several unifying approaches have been proposed to facilitate semantic connections between them. Particularly in personal information retrieval, temporal information has turned to be useful. Hence, in this article, we present an empirical research setting for studying the utility of representing personal usage-history in information retrieval by comparing it with more traditional hierarchical representation. The research setting is based on a software Tool that is described in the article.