An implicit, but pervasive view in the information science community is that people are
perpetual seekers after new public information, incessantly identifying and consuming new …

Personal information management (PIM) refers to the practice and the study of the activities
a person performs in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, use, and …

This paper reports a study of Personal Information Management (PIM), which advances
research in two ways:(1) rather than focusing on one tool, we collected cross-tool data …

Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
is the first comprehensive book on new'favorite child'of R&D at Microsoft and elsewhere …

We carried out fieldwork to characterise and compare physical and digital mementos in the
home. Physical mementos are highly valued, heterogeneous and support different types of …

We explore making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner by adding
physics simulation and using piling instead of filing as the fundamental organizational …

Email consumes significant time and attention in the workplace. We conducted an
organizational survey to understand how and why people attend to incoming email …

We examine the effects of new technologies for digital photography on people's longer term
storage and access to collections of personal photos. We report an empirical study of …

Data are a fundamental component of science and engineering work, and the ability to
share data is critical to the validation and progress of science. Data sharing and reuse in …

We present Themail, a visualization that portrays relationships using the interaction histories
preserved in email archives. Using the content of exchanged messages, it shows the words …