Keeping Found Things Found
http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/index.htmAs with other things, so it is with our information. Finding is just the first step. How do we keep this information so that it's there later when we need it? How do we organize it in ways that make sense for us in the lives we want to lead? Information found does us little good if we misplace it or forget to use it. And just as we must maintain a house or a car, we need to maintain our information - backing it up, archiving or deleting old information, updating information that is no longer accurate. These are each important activities of personal information management (PIM). In our digital world, advances in technologies of search and storage have far outpaced balancing advances in tools and techniques that help us to manage and make sense of our information. This project combines fieldwork with selective prototyping in an effort to understand what is needed for us to "keep found things found."
Are we the spider or the fly?
Publications
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Planz to Put Our Digital Information in Its Place William Jones, Dawei Hou, Bhuricha Deen Sethanandha, Eric Sheng Bi and Jim Gemmell Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. alt.chi (PDF) |