The marks are on the knowledge worker
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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
The humane interface: new directions for designing interactive systems
The humane interface: new directions for designing interactive systems
Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Information retrieval on the web
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data
ACM SIGMOD Record
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
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
Searching to eliminate personal information management
Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Improved search engines and navigation preference in personal information management
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Computers in Human Behavior
A Deeper Look at Gender Difference in Multitasking: Gender-Specific Mechanism of Cognitive Control
ICNC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth International Conference on Natural Computation - Volume 05
Easy on that trigger dad: a study of long term family photo retrieval
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Distribution of cognitive load in Web search
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The effect of folder structure on personal file navigation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Am I wasting my time organizing email?: a study of email refinding
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Adaptive timeline interface to personal history data
Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction
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Personal information management research has consistently shown navigation preference over search. One possible explanation for this is that search requires more cognitive attention than navigation. We tested this hypothesis using the dual-task paradigm. We read a list of words to each of our 62 participants, asked them to navigate or search to a target file, and then compared the number of words recalled in each condition. Participants remembered significantly more words when retrieving by navigation than by search. The fact that they performed better at the secondary task when navigating indicates that it required less cognitive attention than search. Our results also cast doubt on the assumption that search is more efficient and easier to use than navigation: Search took nearly three times longer than navigation, was more vulnerable to mistakes and retrieval failures and was perceived as more difficult on a subjective evaluation. Our results also support the folk belief that women are better than men and that younger people are better than older ones, at multitasking.