How a personal document's intended use or purpose affects its classification in an office
SIGIR '89 Proceedings of the 12th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using memory for events in the design of personal filing systems
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
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
Keystroke level analysis of email message organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Contact management: identifying contacts to support long-term communication
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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
Describing documents: what can users tell us?
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Fast, flexible filtering with phlat
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards task-based personal information management evaluations
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Building simulated queries for known-item topics: an analysis using six european languages
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Retrieval experiments using pseudo-desktop collections
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Building a desktop search test-bed
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
Seeding simulated queries with user-study data for personal search evaluation
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Understanding re-finding behavior in naturalistic email interaction logs
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Exploring query patterns in email search
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
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Re-finding information that has been seen or accessed before is a task which can be relatively straight-forward, but often it can be extremely challenging, time-consuming and frustrating. Little is known, however, about what makes one re-finding task harder or easier than another. We performed a user study to learn about the contextual factors that influence users' perception of task difficulty in the context of re-finding email messages. 21 participants were issued re-finding tasks to perform on their own personal collections. The participants' responses to questions about the tasks combined with demographic data and collection statistics for the experimental population provide a rich basis to investigate the variables that can influence the perception of difficulty. A logistic regression model was developed to examine the relationships between variables and determine whether any factors were associated with perceived task difficulty. The model reveals strong relationships between difficulty and the time lapsed since a message was read, remembering when the sought-after email was sent, remembering other recipients of the email, the experience of the user and the user's filing strategy. We discuss what these findings mean for the design of re-finding interfaces and future re-finding research.