How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The character, value, and management of personal paper archives
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
UMEA: translating interaction histories into project contexts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A diary study of task switching and interruptions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
In pursuit of desktop evolution: User problems and practices with modern desktop systems
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Don't take my folders away!: organizing personal information to get ghings done
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Revisiting Whittaker & Sidner's "email overload" ten years later
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Mental workload in multi-device personal information management
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Task-centred information management
DELOS'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Digital libraries: research and development
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Personal information management (PIM) is a study on how people handle personal information to support their needs and tasks. In the last decade a lot of studies focused on how people acquire, organize, maintain and retrieve information from their information spaces. Results have led to many research prototypes that tried to either augment present tools or integrate these collections within entirely new designs. However, not much has changed in the present tools, and hierarchies still prevail as the storage foundation. Our research aims at understanding the difference between how people organize their information in various applications and physical space and how they actually think of this information in relation to tasks they have to accomplish. We carried out a preliminary study and are currently finishing another study which both show that there is a difference on how information is organized in formal structures on computers and physical spaces and how it is thought of in users' heads. These findings have motivated the design of an application that tries to mimic the latter and adapts to current computer activities.