The user-subjective approach to personal information management systems design: Evidence and implementations

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-246

  Bergman, Ofer ^a   Beyth Marom, Ruth ^b   Nachmias, Rafi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (PIM); USER-SUBJECTIVE APPROACH;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38849153506     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20738     Document Type: Article

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