INSC 598 Readings (partial and preliminary listing)

Week 1 (January 3 & 5):

• Jones, W. 2005. An Introduction to PIM.
• Jones, W. 2005. A conceptual framework for PIM.
• Bush, V. 1945. As we may think. The Atlantic Monthly, 
• Kirsh, D. 2000. A few thoughts on cognitive overload. Intellectia, 30.

Week 2 (January 10 & 12):

• Barreau, D.K. and Nardi, B.A. 1995. Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop. SIGCHI Bulletin, 27(3),7.
• Jones, W., H. Bruce, and S. Dumais. 2003. How do people get back to information on the web? How can they do it better? In 9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), Zurich, Switzerland.
• Teevan, J., et al. 2004. The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search. In CHI 04: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, ACM.

Week 3 (January 17 & 19):

• Jones, W. 2004. Finders, keepers? The present and future perfect in support of personal information management. First Monday, 2004. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_3/jones/index.html
• Bruce, H., Jones, W. and Dumais, S. 2004. Information behavior that keeps found things found. Information Research, 10(1).
• Boardman, R. and M. A. Sasse. 2004. "Stuff goes into the computer and doesn't come out" A Cross-tool Study of Personal Information Management. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Optional:

•  Kwasnik, B. H. 1991. "The importance of factors that are not document attributes in the organization of personal documents." Journal of Documentation, 47(4): 389-398.
•  Jones, W., Phuwanartnurak, A. J., Gill, R & Bruce, H. 2005. Don't Take My Folders Away! Organizing Personal Information to Get Things Done. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), Portland, OR., ACM Press.
•  Marshall, C. C. and S. Bly. 2005. Saving and using encountered information: implications for electronic periodicals. Proceeding of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, Portland, Oregon, ACM Press: 111-120

Week 4 (January 24 & 26):

• Malone, T. W. 1983. "How do people organize their desks: implications for the design of office information-systems." ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, 1(1): 99-112.
• Olha Bondarenko & Ruud Janssen. 2005. “Documents at Hand: Learning from Paper to Improve Digital Technologies. CHI 05: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Whittaker, S. and C. Sidner. 1996. Email overload: exploring personal information management of email. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 1996), Vancouver, B.C., ACM SIGCHI.
• Sellen, A., R. Murphy, et al. 2002. How knowledge workers use the web. CHI 02 : ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, MN., ACM SIGCHI.

Optional: 

• Rodden, K. and K. Wood. 2003. How do people manage their digital photographs? Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ACM Press.
• Whittaker, S. and J. Hirschberg. 2001. "The character, value and management of personal paper archives." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 8(2): 150-170.
• Payne, S. 1993. "Understanding calendar use." Human Computer Interaction, 8(2): 83-100.

Week 5 (January 31 & February 2):

• Pratt, W., Unruh, K., Civan, A., Skeels, M. Personal Health Information Management. To Appear Communications of the ACM
• Gorman, P., Ash, J., Lavelle, M., Lyman, J., et al. 2000. Bundles in the wild: Managing information to solve problems and maintaining situation awareness. Library trends, 49(2): 266-289.

Week 6 (February 7 & 9):

• Cutrell, E., Dumais, S., Teevan, J. 2006. Searching to eliminate personal information management. Communications of the ACM, 49(1): 58-64. 
• Teevan, J., Dumais, S. T., Horvitz, E. 2005. Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities. SIGIR 2005, Salvador, Brazil.
• WinHEC, Search Features in Microsoft Vista. Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx, search down the page "Bill Gates Keynote from WinHEC 2005", click on on the on-demand web cast (selecting speed appropriate to the bandwidth of your connection, and then skip to the 1 hour & 18 minute point (view until the 1 hour and 30 minute point). Note, we'll also be viewing in class.
• Please come to class prepared to share your own pointers to (experiences with) other desktop search facilities. This may include Mac facilitiles such as SpotLight or Google facilities such as Google Desktop.

Week 7 (February 14 & 16):

• Bellotti, V., et al. 2003. Taking email to task: The design and evaluation of a task management centered email tool. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003). Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: ACM Press.
• Gwizdka, J. 2002. Reinventing the inbox : supporting the management of pending tasks in email. CHI 2002 : ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Doctorial Consortium, Minneapolis, MN., ACM SIGCHI.
• Boardman, R., M. A. Sasse, et al. 2002. Life beyond the mailbox : a cross-tool perspective on personal information management. CSCW 2002 Workshop: Redesigning Email for the 21st Century, New Orleans, LA, ACM.
• Nardi, B., S. Whittaker, et al. 2002. "Integrating communication and information through contactmap." Communications of the ACM, 45(4): 89-95.
• Whittaker, Bellotti, & Gwizdka. 2007. “Email and PIM: Problems and Possibilities”. CACM.

Week 8 (February 21 & 23):

• Czerwinski et al. 2006. “Digital Memories in an Era of Ubiquitous Computing and Abundant Storage” CACM. Jan.
• Karger & Jones, W. 2006. “Data Unification in Personal Information Management”. CACM. Jan.
• Rosenberg, S. 1999. Personal information mismanagement : why hasn't the software industry given us more tools to get our lives in order? Salon 21st: 6.
• Dourish, P., W. K. Edwards, et al. 2000. "Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties." ACM Transactions on Information Systems,18(2): 140-170.

Optional:

• Rao, A. 2003. Desktop Aksi: Virtual Workspace concept integrating personal social communication and task management. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ACM Press.
• Kaptelinin, V. 2003. Integrating tools and tasks: UMEA: translating interaction histories into project contexts. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
• Lamming, M., Eldridge, M., Flynn, M., Jones, C., and Pendlebury, D. 2000. "Satchel: providing access to any document, any time, anywhere." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(3): 322-352.

Week 9 (February 28 & March 2):

• Kelly, D. 2006. 2006. Evaluating personal information information management behaviors and tools. Communications of the ACM, 49(1), 84-86.

Week 10 (March 7 & 9):

No readings.