Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including
downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them …

The social and psychological characteristics of individuals who hoard physical items are
quite well understood, however very little is known about the psychological characteristics of …

Although many challenges of managing computer files have been identified in past studies--
and many alternative prototypes made--the scale and structure of personal file collections …

Two studies explore whether people's digital filing behaviors are affected by emotional
factors when engaging in personal information management (PIM). Cognitive science …

Personal information management behaviors appear differently by sources and by context.
This study investigates personal information spaces from a quantitative approach and …

Thoughtfully designing services and rigorously testing software to support personal
information management (PIM) requires understanding the relevant collections, but …

The advent of cloud platforms and mobile devices has complicated personal data
management and decisions about what data to keep or discard. To explore how to help …

Users face many challenges in keeping their personal file collections organized. While
current file-management interfaces help users retrieve files in disorganized repositories …

Improving file management interfaces and optimising system performance requires current
data about users' digital collections and particularly about the file size distributions of such …

Despite much discussion in HCI research about how individual differences likely determine
computer users' personal information management (PIM) practices, the extent of the …