2. How frequently do you access your
mobile calendar on your phone?
Classtotals:
Never
1 per month
1 per week
Few per week
Daily
5
3
1
3
4
Surveytotals:
Never
1 per month
1 per week
Few per week
Daily
Hourly
2
0
2
4
12
2
(38 people total class questions and survey)
people people
3. Types of things on calendar:
In-classOnline
survey Classes
Holidays
Work
Shifts
Job
Fair
MassageAcademic
calendar
Parties / Fun
Doctor
16
18
School/work
deadlines
12
Tracking health
2
Group meetings
13
Task reminder
25
Fitness classes
7
School Sched.
9
people
people
people
people
people
people
people
people
4. 30
88
people
share
calendars
For whom do you create calendar entries?
(referenced study)
73% share it with a significant other.
(22 of 30)
17% share with groups of associates.
(5 of 30)
27% share with a coworker.
(8 of 30)
33% share with a friend.
(10 of 30)
Thayer, A., Bietz, M., Derthick, K., & Lee, C. (2012). I love you, let’s share calendars: Calendar sharing as relationship work. Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp 749-758
33% share with a family member (e.g., mother, father, sister).
(7 of 30)
(e.g., exercise partners, student group members).
5. Dislike about current calendar
Sharing
Social media
option
No
Preview
Visual separate
depending on user
Reminder
difficulties
No
notes
No week
viewSync to email
Entry / Input
Interface, format,
features, navigation
Visual feedback
for month details
6. What else do you use besides your
mobile calendar?
51different tools in
use across investigation,
“information where content has been scribbled
on Post-it notes, scrawled on the corners of
sheets of paper, stuck in our pockets, sent in
email messages to ourselves, and stashed in
miscellaneous digital text files”.
In The Workplace...
78%of employees still use paper calendars in
additionto any electronic calendar.
• Sticky notes
• Google calendar
• Physical calendar
• Apps
• Email
• Scraps
• White boards
http://www.ppai.org/documents/business%20study%20final%20report%20version%204.pdf
Bernstein, M., Van Kleek, M., Karger, D. (2008), Information scraps: How and why information eludes our personal information anagement tools.
ACM Transactions od Information Systems. Vol. 26. Article 24.
Information scraps...
33 digital (Email, Notepad and Word)
18 physical (Notebooks and Post-its)
7. What would you like to put in your calendar?
Ongoing duties/obligations
Goals
Bills / budget
Grocery checklist
Tasks (to do lists)
Spending habits
Travel details Record TV shows
Reoccurring activities
Graphic representation
of types of tasks
8. Emails
To do list
Look up important information
(address, numbers, availability,
attendees, budget)
Texts
Phone calls
Sync from other
calendars
Make reservations
Remember to put on calendar /
reminders to add to calendar
Activity before creating an entry...
