Thinking Outside the (Beige) Box: Personal Information Management Beyond the Desktop
Abstract
As personal information ventures out with users from the desktop into the wild, researchers in personal information management are confronted with many new issues, and an amplification of the effects of existing issues. In this paper, we take a detailed look at the mobile context and how it differs from the stationary context, specifically in relation to PIM. Other changes in PIM, as information moves beyond the personal and into the social are also interesting to the PIM researcher. Based in part on comments made by participants of a study we conducted, and from our own experience in designing PIM for multiple devices and other scenarios, we highlight a few specific instances where existing PIM research falls short of addressing the issues, and pose a few open questions for the PIM community to consider as we move beyond the disappearing desktop.
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