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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"personal information management"”.
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Customizable application for personal information management
… must be developed to help end users curate that information. The information management tools available today are limited in several ways. They are either restrictive in how users define and organize their data, or they offer few options in how users can view and interact with that data. In this …
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Effort, memory, attention and time : paths to more effective personal information management
… tools for storing, accessing, and sharing information, why is so much information still lost, forgotten, or kept on paper? The work in this thesis finds that such disorganization results from problems in the designs of the personal information management (PIM) tools in common use today. …
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Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices
… and cell phones are often used to manage users' personal information, such as files, calendars, contacts, emails, and bookmarks. This dissertation presents the results of two studies that examined users' mental workload in this context, especially when transitioning tasks from one device to …
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An Investigation of Finding and Refinding Information on the Web
Refinding electronic information is a common problem, yet it has received less study than the problem of how to find information for the first time. In this dissertation, I examine how people approach tasks to refind information they have seen on the Web and factors that may affect refinding. I …
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An innovative integrated development environment for the Pocket PC PDA
… Integrated Development Environments running on Personal Digital Assistants lack features that address the challenges in human-computer interaction with the PDA. The slow input techniques and small screen display of PDAs contribute to the overall difficulty of software development on the PDA. …
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TaskAmbient: A Study in Personal Task Management Visualization
In personal task management, individual tasks are susceptible to failure at various stages due to failures in prospective memory, information fragmentation, and/or cognitive overload. To alleviate the troubles that occur in personal task management, people use various tools such as notifications …
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Contextinator: Recreating the context lost amid information fragmentation on the web
… browser has emerged as a central workspace for information workers, where they make use of cloud-based applications to access their information. While this solution nicely supports access to their data from multiple devices, it presents a nightmare for organizing and coordinating data between …
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Intentional Information Fragmentation in Email Management
Personal Information Management (PIM) studies the practice of storing, organizing, and retrieving information by an individual in support of their roles and tasks (Bergman, et al., 2004). One important problem in PIM is information fragmentation (IF) — the condition of having data in different …
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From Information Overload to Knowledge Graphs: An Automatic Information Process Model
… papers from the Internet have caused the information overload problem. Collecting valuable information as well as coding the information efficiently from enormous amounts of unstructured textual information becomes a big challenge in the information explosion age. Although many solutions …
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Getting Lost in Email: How and Why Users Spend More Time in Email than Intended
… in conversations, as opposed to email management. I also found that participants attended to email primarily based on notifications, instead of the number of unread messages in their inbox. I present my results through answering several research questions, and leverage Conversation …
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Personal information organization and re-access in computer folders: an empirical study of information workers
… (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Library and Information Science (ID: 449) No. of bitstreams: 4 Zhang_Hong.pdf.txt: 296445 bytes, checksum: 1a93129929ffddffd2e64ba4a4b1bbb2 (MD5) Zhang_Hong.pdf: 1948551 bytes, checksum: 995f03ca04660192500ae53a56f8b811 (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: …
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PIM analysis and development : improving information visibility in a micro-note taking tool
The digital age has brought about an information overload for individuals. While digital personal information management (PIM) tools are advancing, any one PIM tool generally fails to meet all the information management needs of an individual. Tools that require too much effort to save a new piece …
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Managing the information overload : a case study of managerial staff in a government department
Research shows that the amount of information has grown vastly and information technology has greatly increased its availability. This has caused changes in the organisational environment, placing greater and greater demands on the individuals' and organisations' capacity to absorb and process …
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Conceptualizing privacy : towards engineering privacy in contemporary society
… a lack of technological support for privacy and personal information management in practice. Although there are many so-called privacy-enhancing technologies available, the occurrence of regular breaches of privacy demonstrate that a fundamental problem remains. A key reason for the lack of …
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Ontologiebasierte Indexierung und Kontextualisierung multimedialer Dokumente für das persönliche Wissensmanagement
Die Verwaltung persönlicher, multimedialer Dokumente kann mit Hilfe semantischer Technologien und Ontologien intelligent und effektiv unterstützt werden. Dies setzt jedoch Verfahren voraus, die den grundlegenden Annotations- und Bearbeitungsaufwand für den Anwender minimieren und dabei eine …
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How do people manage their documents?: an empirical investigation into personal document management practices among knowledge workers
Personal document management is the activity of managing a collection of digital documents performed by the owner of the documents, and consists of creation/acquisition, organisation, finding and maintenance. Document management is a pervasive aspect of digital work, but has received relatively …
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Information Scraps in the Smartphone Era
How people create and use information scraps, the small informal messages that people write to themselves to help them complete a task or remember something, has changed rapidly in the age of mobile computing. As recently as 2008, information scraps had continued to resist technological support. …
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A Personal Documenation System for Scholars: A Tool for Thinking
… problems scholars have in organizing their information, potential solutions, and specific computer tool features to augment scholarly thinking. Info Select, a personal information manager with most of these features (text and outline processing, sophisticated searching and organizing), was …
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Decentering the writing program archive: How composition instructors save and share their teaching materials
… materials are publicly visible by virtue of personal web spaces and social media. Instructors interviewed for this study often lack best practices in digital records management and preservation, leading to wayfinding challenges in the short-term and potential digital ephemerality in the …