Understanding computers and cognition
Understanding computers and cognition
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Context as a factor in personal information management systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Strategies for Organising Email
HCI 97 Proceedings of HCI on People and Computers XII
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
From context to content: leveraging context to infer media metadata
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Improving proactive information systems
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Privacy gradients: exploring ways to manage incidental information during co-located collaboration
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Towards a tool for design ideation: insights from use of SketchStorm
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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As people become more and more involved with digital information, they grow proportionally involved in situated practices of collecting. They put together large sets of information elements. However, their attention to those information elements is limited. They use whatever means are at hand in order to form representations of their collections. They need to keep track of the elements in these collections, so they can use them later. We conducted a study with 20 college students. A major concern for the students during collection building was collection management and utilization, particularly as the size and number of their collections grows. They experienced breakdowns in these processes, yet continued to engage in collecting. They developed strategies such as informal metadata schemas and hierarchical organization to try to cope with their problems. We consider the practices observed, and their implications for the development of tools to support digital collection building and utilization. Collection representations that support cognition, collaboration, and semantic schemas are prescribed.