Don't take my folders away! organizing personal information to get things done

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1505-1508

  Jones, William ^a   Phuwanartnurak, Ammy Jiranida ^a   Gill, Rajdeep ^a   Bruce, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Human information behavior; Personal information management; Problem solving; Project planning

Indexed keywords

DIVIDE AND CONQUER; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; FOLDER HIERARCHY; INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION; PROJECT INFORMATIONS; PROJECT PLANNING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

TEACHING;

EID: 84869143914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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