Book description
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management is the first comprehensive book on new 'favorite child' of R&D at Microsoft and elsewhere, personal information management (PIM). It provides a comprehensive overview of PIM as both a study and a practice of the activities people do, and need to be doing, so that information can work for them in their daily lives.
It explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure improvements. It presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM informational tools or systems.
This book is designed for R&D professionals in HCI, data mining and data management, information retrieval, and related areas, plus developers of tools and software that include PIM solutions.
- Focuses exclusively on one of the most interesting and challenging problems in today's world
- Explores what good and better PIM looks like, and how to measure improvements
- Presents key questions to consider when evaluating any new PIM informational tools or systems
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Credits
- Preface
- Contributors
- FOUNDATIONS
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ACTIVITIES
- Chapter 4: Finding and re-finding: From need to information
- Chapter 5: Keeping and organizing: From information to need
- Chapter 6: Maintaining for now and for later
- Chapter 7: Managing privacy and the flow of information
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Chapter 8: Measuring and evaluating
- 8.1 Starting out
- 8.2 Getting oriented
- 8.3 A yardstick for measuring PIM practice elements
- 8.4 What can research tell us about methods of measuring and evaluating in our practices of PIM?
- 8.5 Measuring and evaluating in real life
- 8.6 Can self-study of PIM practices contribute to the larger study of PIM?
- 8.7 Looking back, looking forward
- Chapter 9: Making sense of things
- SOLUTIONS
- CONCLUSIONS
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2010
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780080554150
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