Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Interactive Technologies) - Softcover

Jones, William

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9780123708663: Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Interactive Technologies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0123708664 ISBN 13: 9780123708663
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

William Jones is a research associate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found project. Dr. Jones contributed chapters on personal information management (PIM) to the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, the Handbook of Applied Cognition, and the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. He has presented numerous tutorials and courses on PIM, co-edited a book on PIM, and organized two PIM workshops, including an invitational sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Jones has published articles on basic research in cognitive psychology and more applied research in PIM, information retrieval, and human–computer interaction. Dr. Jones holds several patents relating to search and PIM. He received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University.

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Publisher
Morgan Kaufmann
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0123708664
ISBN 13 
9780123708663
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
448
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