{"id":150,"date":"2011-05-30T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:34","slug":"piling-in-the-office-the-advantages-and-disadvantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Piling in the office &#8211; the advantages and disadvantages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote about <a href=\"\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/101-Email-overload-how-to-avoid-it.html\">email overload<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/103-Is-deleting-information-the-answer-How-do-we-know-what-to-delete.html\">information remova<\/a>l from digital information space (for creating environment with less distractions). I came across this interesting photo of an office information overflow, which seams very real. Malone [1] wrote about <strong>advantages of piling or spatial management over hierarchies<\/strong>. The main strengths of piling are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> less cognitive effort than categorizing<\/li>\n<li>spatial awareness of information location and faster retrieval <\/li>\n<li>reminding functionality of spatially managed information<\/li>\n<li>keeping less information than with filing into hierarchies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But all <strong>these advantages disappear when there is too much information available<\/strong>. As in this office.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/min2.5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[1] Thomas W. Malone, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ischool.utexas.edu\/~i385q-dt\/readings\/Malone-1983-HowDoPeople.pdf\">How do people organize their desks? Implications for the design of office information systems<\/a> (1983) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I wrote about email overload and information removal from digital information space (for creating environment with less distractions). I came across this interesting photo of an office information overflow, which seams very real. Malone [1] wrote about advantages of piling or spatial management over hierarchies. The main strengths of piling are less cognitive effort&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}