Recommended references on PIM (Richard Boardman)

An updated set of personal information management links and bibliography can be found here

What if we kept everything?

Alan Dix

• the ultimate interface and the sums of life?, Interactions 50 (2002)

Gordon Bell

• A Personal Store for Everything (PDF), CACM 44(1) (2001)

Personal information management problems and theories

David Kirsh

• A few thoughts on cognitive overload, Intellectica 30 (2000)
• The Context of Work, Human Computer Interaction (2001)

Mark Lansdale

• The psychology of personal information management, Applied Ergonomics 19(1) (1988)

Our personal workspaces don't work

Michael Dertouzos

• The Unfinished Revolution, MIT Press (2001)

Mark Hurst

• It's Time to Simplify the PC , goodexperience.com (2001)

Ted Nelson

• Where our hyper-media really should go! (2000)

Don Norman

• The Invisible Computer, MIT Press (1998)

Jef Raskin

• The Humane Interface, ACM Press, (2000)

How do people use their workspaces?

Cross-workspace Studies

Victoria Bellotti and Ian Smith

• Informing the design of an information management system with iterative fieldwork, DIS 2000

Kidd, Alison

• The marks are on the knowledge worker in Proceedings of CHI 94 186-191.

Studies of time and task management

Ann Blandford and Thomas Green (2001)

Stephen Payne (1993)

Also see Bellotti and Smith above

Studies of contact management

Nardi, B., Whittaker, Steve, Schwarz, Heinrich

• It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Work in the Information Age. First Monday, May, 2000.

Also see Bellotti and Smith above

Studies of email

Wendy Mackay

• Diversity in the use of electronic mail: A preliminary inquiry ACM Trans. on Office Information Systems, 6 (4), (1988) 380-397

Steve Whittaker and Candace Sidner

• Email overload: Exploring personal information management of email in Proceedings of CHI'96 Conference on Computer Human Interaction, NY: ACM Press, 276-283.

Also see Bellotti and Smith above

Studies of File Management

Deborah Barreau

• JASIS 1995

Deborah Barreau and Bonnie Nardi

• Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop, SIGCHI Bulletin, 27(3) (1995)
• Finding and reminding revisited: Appropriate metaphors for file organization at the desktop, SIGCHI Bulletin, 29(1), 76-78.

Kaptelinin V.

• Creating computer-based work environments: an empirical study of Macintosh users, in Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on SIGCPR/SIGMIS, ACM Press, pp. 360-366, 1996.

Physical workspace

Tom Malone

• How do people organize their desks? Implications for the design of office information systems ACM Trans. on Office Information Systems 1(1) (1983)

Whittaker (2001)

Studies of web bookmark organization

Abrams et al.

• Information archiving with bookmarks: Personal; web construction and organization, CHI'98

Gottlieb and Dilevko

• User preferences in the classification of electronic bookmarks: implications for a shared system, JASIS 52(7) (2001)

Jones et al.

• Keeping Found Things Found on the Web, CIKM 2001

New workspaces

Unified Approaches

Attribute-based

Paul Dourish et al.

• Presto: an experimental architecture for fluid interactive document spaces, ACM Trans. on Computer-Human Interaction, 6(2) (1999)

Time-based

David Gelernter et al.

• LifeStreams
• Fertig, S. F. E., & Gelernter, D. Finding and reminding reconsidered, SIGCHI Bulletin, 28(1), 66-69
• Scopeware the commercial incarnation of the LifeStreams work

Rekimoto, J.

• Time-machine computing: A time-centric approach for the information environment in Proceedings of UIST'99, ACM Press, 1999.

Personal Web (all document inter-relationships (hyperlink, folders, references) treated the same)

David Wolber et al.

• Personal Web

Role-based

Shneiderman B., Plaisant, C. The future of graphic user interfaces: personal role managers UMD CS-TR-3285, CAR-TR-713, ISR-TR-94-48 People and Computers IX, British Computer Society's HCI 94 (Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 1994) CU Press (Cambridge, U.K.) 3-8.

Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B. Organization overviews and role management: Inspiration for future desktop environments UMD CS-TR-3473, CAR-TR-771 IEEE Proc. 4th Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (Berkeley Springs, WV, April 20-22, 1995) 14-22.

Contact-based

ContactMap (2001)

Interaction techniques

Dynamic folders based on searches

David K. Gifford, Pierre Jouvelot, Mark A. Sheldon, & James W. O'Toole, Jr.

• Semantic File Systems 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (1991)

The Ximian Evolution mail client's vFolder mechanism provides a dynamic search-based organization mechanism

Piles

Mander, Richard, Salomon, Gitta, & Wong, Yin

• A "Pile" metaphor for supporting casual organization of information in Proceedings CHI '92 p. 627-634.

Window interaction

Kandogan, E., Shneiderman, B.

• Elastic windows: Evaluation of multi-window operations in Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 97) ACM Press, 250-257.

Rooms

Henderson, D. Austin, and Card, Stuart. Rooms: The use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface ACM Transactions on Graphics 1986 v.5 n.3 p.211-243 .

3D

Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., Larson, K., Robbins, D., Thiel, D. & van Dantzich, M. Data mountain: Using spatial memory for document management in Proceedings of ACM UIST '98 Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology, ACM Press, San Francisco, CA, 1998.

Robertson, G., van Dantzich, M., Robbins, D., Czerwinski, M., Hinckley, K., Risden, K., Thiel, D. and Gorokhovsky, V., The Task Gallery: a 3D window manager, in Proceedings of CHI 2000, ACM Press, The Hague, 2000.