The spatial metaphor for user interfaces: experimental tests of reference by location versus name
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The memory extender personal filing system
CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A “pile” metaphor for supporting casual organization of information
CHI '92 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 Windows 95 user interface: a case study in usability engineering
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sifting through hierarchical information
CHI '93 INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Practical File System Design with the Be File System
Practical File System Design with the Be File System
Introduction to Algorithms
How do people manage their digital photographs?
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Introduction to Database Systems
Introduction to Database Systems
Documents at Hand: Learning from Paper to Improve Digital Technologies
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
The persistence of behavior and form in the organization of personal information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Symbolic links in the Open Directory Project
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User interface models for the cloud
UIST '10 Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Searchable virtual file system: toward an intelligent ubiquitous storage
GPC'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
TagTree: storing and re-finding files using tags
USAB'11 Proceedings of the 7th conference on Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society: information Quality in e-Health
Re-thinking bookmark management --- less choice is more efficient
DUXU'13 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: web, mobile, and product design - Volume Part IV
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Whether you are interested in improving the usability of Linux, Macintosh or Windows, there is one restriction you cannot escape -- the hierarchical file storage system. The notion of files and folders has been with us for so long that it almost seems axiomatic. In this paper we look at the effects on users of forcing a hierarchical classification of files. We also consider how some of the resultant problems can be tackled with a new piece of file browsing software based on the ideas of relational database systems.