Personal Information Management

Handbook of Applied Cognition, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 471-495

  Jones, William ^a   Ross, Brian H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive psychology; Database management; Information processing; Organizational schemes; Personal information management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855699540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713181.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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