Tuesday 08 February 2005 Lecture

Previous lecture's terms:
Project/task/topic
Function
Proximity
visibility
form
situation
document
disposition - what is it you have to do with x and why....
order/scheme
value
time
cognitive state

We should probably reflect and/or discuss the next assignment in the above terms


Barreau & Nardi

Personal Informaton mgmt

Ephemeral/Working/Archived

what's ephemeral: SPAM
ephemeral defined in part by "I might need it some day"
what are the possibilities someone else might have it? what are the risks of not being able to re-find?
other email
voicemail
pens & stationary
knowledge from conversations


ephemeral in form/[in function]/in content
function/role
no action
action -> pass on
save-remove from ephemerality

what goes out of date
emails in reference to a prject
what stays
references


Diane Kelly on workshop for personal information (PIM)
foundational questions to be answered before a field is established
- what is personal information?
information of exclusive relevance to a person
address book
social security
email

information about yourself or information relative to you

information I have that I'm unwilling to share or make public (private)
personalized information
organizing structures - my start page

"personal" information management
"personal information" management


collecting information on an individual


what is the goal of personal information management?
to make it easier to do what I want to do
act efficiently/augment & enhance work
to help me surprise people
to find valid, novel & interesting information

why sort it when you can search it?
characterize what's important to the user
that organization is a sort of annotation itself that should be valuable to a search tool
future/resorting use

do different types of sorts