AGENDA Overview of personal information
management and HCI Solution 1: Tagging Solution 2: Activity Based Computing Other Solutions
BACKGROUND Knowledge work Sensemaking
HCI IMPLICATIONS Tools Activity management Information management
HISTORY 1945 – Bush and Memex 1983 – Bannon, Cypher, Greenspan, and
Monty 2009 – First user-subjective design
scheme
PRESENT DAY PROBLEMS File organization analogy Disconnects
TOOL REQUIREMENTS Models human association and
conceptualization Must be fast and simple to use Must fit flow and style of the user
TAGGING: ABOUT When to use? Support disruptions Sharing
TAGGING: EXAMPLES Flickr Delicious Wordpress Remember
the Milk Windows 7
TAGGING: RESEARCH RESULTS
General
Tag usage• Short term• Central repository• Filtering• Meta-structures
TAGGING: RESEARCH RESULTS
Place holdin
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New Projec
t
Tipping
Point
Time saving
Tag Triggers• Project Lifecycle
TAGGING: BENEFITS Easy access to information Aids activity management
TAGGING: ISSUES No easy-to-use mainstream tools Tag management Value emerges over the long-term
SOLUTION 2: ACTIVITY BASED COMPUTING (ABC)
ABC: EXAMPLES Many prototypes, few deployments
ABC: RESEARCH RESULTS Useful Flexible New organization strategies
ABC: BENEFITS Better task awareness Simpler multitasking More natural organization Improved online collaboration
ABC: ISSUES More challenging to adopt Activity management Difficult to implement
ADDITIONAL SOLUTIONS Knowledge harvesting E-mail, calendars, task managers Computer notebooks Wikis