Review of recent HCI papers on Personal Information Management

1. HCI and Personal Information Management Stephanie Weis

2. Agenda Overview of personal information management and HCI Solution 1: Tagging Solution 2: Activity Based Computing Other Solutions

3. Background Knowledge work Sensemaking

4. HCI Implications Tools Activity management Information management

5. History 1945 – Bush and Memex 1983 – Bannon, Cypher, Greenspan, and Monty 2009 – First user-subjective design scheme

6. Present day problems File organization analogy Disconnects

7. Tool Requirements Models human association and conceptualization Must be fast and simple to use Must fit flow and style of the user

8. Solution 1: Tagging

9. Tagging: About When to use? Support disruptions Sharing

10. Tagging: Examples Flickr Delicious Wordpress Remember the Milk Windows 7

11. Tagging: Research Results

13. Tagging: Issues No easy-to-use mainstream tools Tag management Value emerges over the long-term

14. Solution 2: Activity Based Computing (ABC)

15. ABC: About

16. ABC: Examples Many prototypes, few deployments

17. ABC: Research Results Useful Flexible New organization strategies

18. ABC: Benefits Better task awareness Simpler multitasking More natural organization Improved online collaboration

19. ABC: Issues More challenging to adopt Activity management Difficult to implement

20. Additional Solutions Knowledge harvesting E-mail, calendars, task managers Computer notebooks Wikis

21. Questions?