Digital library design for organizational usability
ACM SIGOIS Bulletin - Special issue on workshop write-ups and position papers from CSCW'94
Rich interaction in the digital library
Communications of the ACM
Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Which way now? Analysing and easing inadequacies in WWW navigation
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
“Finding and reminding” reconsidered
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Critiquing Human Error: A Knowledge Based Human-Computer Collaboration Approach
Critiquing Human Error: A Knowledge Based Human-Computer Collaboration Approach
Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Reminding and Learning in Computers and People
Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Reminding and Learning in Computers and People
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
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With busy users relying increasingly on computers to provide reminders and alerts, the enabling technology is rapidly gaining importance. Surprisingly, many issues have not yet been thoroughly explored. If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.-C. Morley, 1929 Being only human, we sometimes forget. Computers can be a great help in this area: Barring disk crashes or other malfunctions, they are far less likely to forget than humans. Reminding and alerting are pervasive, though perhaps ancillary, functions of computing. Nevertheless, it is surprising that they attract so little attention. The state of the art is characterized by after-the-fact application patches, plug-ins, and custom-designed reminder methods. This hodgepodge of approaches is likely to change. Recent trends indicate that hundreds of millions of dollars of personal information management (PIM) programs have been sold, mainly because of their reminding abilities; billions of dollars in savings per year and increased quality of work are projected as more reminder and alerting programs are deployed; and agents that perform reminding and alerting tasks represent one of the fastest growing areas of the World Wide Web and other digital repositories.Clearly, professionals, consumers, and employees in all types of businesses are turning to digital reminders to increase their efficiency. The demands of a fast-paced technological world appear to be outstripping the capabilities of old-fashioned cerebral reminders. This shouldn't be surprising, considering the limitations of our standard-issue biological memory systems.