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INSC 540 Fall 2003Part 3)

Personal Information Management & Awareness

December 1st, 2003Presenters: Charles Naumer & Liu Shuhua

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Literature Reviewed:• Personal Info. Mgmt.• Information Awareness

Overview: Personal Info. Mgmt

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Outline• Ability to Keep Found• Related Works(4)

– Assessment & Observation of personal information management– Stuff I’ve Seen– Information Awareness

• Conclusion• Reference

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Ability to Keep Found• What is Ability to Keep Found

– Information retrieval technologies designed to facilitate novel information discovery.

– What can be done to avoid the need to repeat the process by which the information was found in the first place .(Jones W.P., Dumais S.T.& Bruce H. 2002)

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Ability to Keep Found• What is Ability to Keep Found• Motivations

– Information Reuse Overload (WenSyan Li et. al. 1999)

• 30.31% of the users report “finding known information” is their problem.

• 27.80% of the users report organizing collected information as their problem.

– Necessity for academia to keep pace with the development of research area.

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Outline• Ability to Keep Found• Related Works(4)

– Assessment & Observation of personal information management– Stuff I’ve seen– Information Awareness

• Conclusion• Reference

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Assessment and Observation of Personal Information Management

• Empirical Assessment of Personal Information Management Systems (Jones & Thomas 1997)– A simple pilot study to investigate the use of

personal information management technologies.

• Keep Found Things Found (Jones W.P., Dumais S.T.& Bruce H,2002)

• Sound and concrete data about personal information behavior

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Stuff I’ve Seen (Susan Dumais, 2003)

• A prototype that facilitate personal information retrieval and re-use – Unified index of information that a person

had seen (E-mail, Web Page, Document, Appointment etc.)

– Rich Contextual cues used in the search interface (time and people)

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• A prototype that facilitate personal information retrieval and re-use – Unified index of information that a person

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– Rich Contextual cues used in the search interface (time and people)

• SIS can only support information that users have seen, not information they should see.

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“Sideshow” (JJ Cadiz et. al. 2002)

• A peripheral awareness interface providing updated information from any accessible web site or database.

• Using the peripheral interface as a launch point for easy drill down increased the amount and value of information made accessible to the users.

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“Sideshow” (JJ Cadiz et. al. 2002)

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Sideshow” (JJ Cadiz et. al. 2002)

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“Sideshow” (JJ Cadiz et. al. 2002)

• A peripheral awareness interface providing updated information from any accessible web site or database.

• Using the peripheral interface as a launch point for easy drill down increased the amount and value of information made accessible to the users.

• This interface has only been tested in software companies, to customize it also need users’ big efforts.

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Conclusion• Information workspaces must enable

users – To access a variety of search technology

and document types through unified presentation and interaction styles

– To capture the history of search activity for retrospective analysis and represent future search

– To annotate search activity and share search activity with others

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Reference

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3. JJ Cadiz, Gina Venolia, Gavin Jancke & Anoop Gupta(2002), Designing and Deploying an Information Awareness Interface. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 314-323

4. Jones W.P.,Dumais S.T. and Bruce H.(2002), Once found, what next? A study of ‘keeping’ behaviors in the personal use of web information. Proceedings of ASIST 2002, 391-402

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