PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Teachers: Denis Lalanne Florian Evequoz

Introduction: Personal information management (PIM) is concerned with the study of the strategies, artifacts and technologies to support people in acquiring, organizing, maintaining, retrieving and using personal information such as documents, web pages and email messages for everyday use.

Objectifs: Il sera demandé à chaque étudiant de choisir un thème parmis ceux proposés, de lire les articles correspondants, de les synthétiser et finalement de les présenter en fin de séminaire. Un rapport de 4-6 pages synthétisera les lectures et présentera les travaux de recherche du thème choisi. Il sera rédigé en LaTeX, selon le format ACM Strict. Enfin, une synthèse de la "diary study" devra également être rendue, voir ci-dessous.

Diary study

  • Phase 1: Décrivez votre propre pratique de gestion d'information personnelle sur un des deux types de données à choix : les emails ou les fichiers. Combien utilisez-vous de répertoires ? Que représentent-ils ? Combien ont-ils de niveaux ? Quelles sont vos stratégie de suppression, de classement, de création, de recherche ou de navigation ? Utilisez-vous des programmes particuliers pour vous aider à gérer votre information ? Etes-vous satisfait de cette manière de faire ? Avez-vous des souhaits ? Des craintes ? etc. Cette analyse sert de base pour la deuxième phase. Elle fera l'objet d'un résumé d'une page au maximum.

  • Phase 2: Au jour le jour, notez les tâches de gestion d'information personnelle que vous effectuez et demandez-vous si elles sont conformes à la stratégie exposée dans la phase 1. Argumentez les éventuelles réflexions sur votre stratégie, les adaptations, etc. Une synthèse de l'étude sera rendue à la fin du séminaire (2 pages maximum).

Inscription: L'inscription n'est plus possible.

Programme

Séance 1 (13.03.2009)

Séance 2 (24.04.2009)

  • Reddition "diary study" (phase 1)

  • Présentation "exemple de diary studies" (télécharger)

  • "How to make a good scientific presentation"

Séance 3 (08.05.2009)

  • Conférencier invité : Mike Flynn, IDIAP Research Institute

Séance 4 (12.06.2009)

Thèmes

PIM-1- History and background (canceled)

  • Bush, V. (1945). As We May Think. The Atlantic Monthly. 176: 641-649.

  • Lansdale, M. (1988). "The psychology of personal information management." Applied Ergonomics 19(1): 55-66.

  • Jaime Teevan, William Jones, and Benjamin B. Bederson. Introduction. Commun. ACM, 49(1):40–43, 2006.

  • Richard Boardman. Improving tool support for personal information management. Electrical and electronic engineering, Imperial College, London, 2004, ch. 3 "Literature review".

PIM-2- How do people manage their personal information ? (Raphael Boesch)

  • S. Whittaker and J. Hirschberg. The character, value, and management of personal paper archives. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 8(2):150–170, 2001

  • Boardman, R., R. Spence, et al. (2003). Too many hierarchies? : the daily struggle for control of the workspace. HCI International 2003: 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece.

  • Czerwinski, M., Horvitz, E., and Wilhite, S. 2004. A diary study of task switching and interruptions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2004). CHI '04. ACM, New York, NY, 175-182.

  • Deborah Barreau and Bonnie A. Nardi. Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop. SIGCHI Bull., 27(3):39–43, 1995.

PIM-3- Personal information management tools (Joseph Schaeppi)

  • Edward Cutrell, Daniel Robbins, Susan Dumais, and Raman Sarin. Fast, flexible filtering with Phlat. In CHI ’06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference Human Factors in computing systems, pages 261–270, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM.

  • Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Cadiz, J., Jancke, G., Sarin, R., and Robbins, D. C. 2003. Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in informaion Retrieval (Toronto, Canada, July 28 - August 01, 2003). SIGIR '03. ACM, New York, NY, 72-79.

  • Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, Roger Lueder, Steven Drucker, and Curtis Wong. MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision. In MULTIMEDIA ’02: Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia, pages 235–238, New York, NY, USA, 2002. ACM Press.

  • David R. Karger, Karun Bakshi, David Huynh, Dennis Quan, and Vineet Sinha. Haystack: A general-purpose information management tool for end users based on semistructured data. In CIDR, pages 13–26, 2005.

  • Mik Lamming and Mike Flynn. Forget-me-not: intimate computing in support of human memory. In Proceedings FRIEND21 Symposium on Next Generation Human Interfaces, 1994.

PIM-4- Time in personal information management (Joël Allred)

  • Catherine Plaisant, Brett Milash, Anne Rose, Seth Widoff, and Ben Shneiderman. LifeLines: visualizing personal histories. In CHI ’96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 221–ff., New York, NY, USA, 1996. ACM.

  • Taowei David Wang, Catherine Plaisant, Alex Quinn, Roman Stanchak, Ben Shneiderman, and Shawn Murphy. Aligning Temporal Data by Sentinel Events: Discovering Patterns in Electronic Health Records. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).

  • Jun Rekimoto. Time-machine computing: a time-centric approach for the information environment. In UIST ’99: Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pages 45–54, New York, NY, USA, 1999. ACM.

  • Meredith Ringel, Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais, and Eric Horvitz. Milestones in Time: The value of landmarks in retrieving information from personal stores. In Matthias Rauterberg, Marino Menozzi, and Janet Wesson, editors, INTERACT, pages 184 – 191, Zurich (Switzerland), 1 -5 September 2003. IOS Press.

PIM-5- Email in personal information management (Julien Thomet)

  • Steve Whittaker and Candace Sidner. Email overload: exploring personal information management of email. In CHI ’96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 276–283, New York, NY, USA, 1996. ACM Press.

  • Mark Dredze, Tessa Lau, and Nicholas Kushmerick. Automatically classifying emails into activities. In IUI ’06: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, pages 70–77, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.

  • Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, and Jacek Gwizdka. Email in personal information management. Commun. ACM, 49(1):68–73, 2006.

  • Gruen, D., Rohall, S. L., Minassian, S., Kerr, B., Moody, P., Stachel, B., Wattenberg, M., and Wilcox, E. 2004. Lessons from the reMail prototypes. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM, New York, NY, 152-161.

  • William Jones, Keeping Found Things Found, Morgan Kauffman, 2007. pp. 272-300.

PIM-6- Evaluating PIM (Olivier Wolf)

  • Charles M. Naumer and Karen E. Fisher. Naturalistic approaches for understanding PIM, chapter 5, pages 76–89. University of Washington Press, 2007.

  • Diane Kelly and Jaime Teevan. Understanding what works: Evaluating PIM tools, chapter 11, pages 190–205. University of Washington Press, 2007.

  • David Elsweiler and Ian Ruthven. Towards task-based personal information management evaluations. In SIGIR ’07: Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pages 23–30, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM.

Date: 2009, Spring