Searching in public versus re-finding in private: are they the same?

  • Authors:
  • Azrina Kamaruddin

  • Affiliations:
  • Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • OZCHI '05 Proceedings of the 17th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Citizens Online: Considerations for Today and the Future
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

My work is set within the area of personal information management (PIM). More particularly, I am interested in the process of re-finding and the emotional aspect of this. Here the term refinding is the process where resources, such as web pages, that have previously been seen by a user are later retrieved. Whereas the original process of finding the resources often occurs in the public domain (e.g. WWW), the process of re-finding often uses private collection such as bookmarks. The research will investigate the experienced and novice users. We feel that these two types of users employed different strategy and approach in achieving their information target. We would like to bridge the gap between these two users by having a generic model which both users can benefit from it.