Deconstructing and reconstructing PIM (Personal Information Management)
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The document discusses the deconstruction and reconstruction of personal information management (PIM), highlighting its significance in human-computer interaction (HCI) and social justice. It examines various popular PIM tools, their functionalities, and the underlying principles of effective collaboration. Key takeaways include the importance of appropriating technology for individual and community benefits, emotional management, and the need for integrated solutions that accommodate diverse user practices.
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– collaboration with future self (Bergman and Whittaker, 2016)
– Kidd’s marks – do we need it anyway?
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Deconstructing and reconstructing PIM (Personal Information Management)
- 2. 2nd edition coming soon plus AI for HCI AI for Social Justice plugs
- 4. promise of PIM PIM research – does it make a difference? – ideas and concepts trickle through (Klujn et al., 2015) e.g. threading MONA => gmail tech innovation start-ups – loads of apps! personal knowledge management, personal productivity tools (Cockburn & Thimbleby. 1993; Cockburn, 1994)
- 5. plan … analysis – deconstruct Personal Information Management – examine some interesting and popular apps synthesis – technology and features – human context
- 9. deconstructing PIM Personal – organisation–individual conflicts – friends and community – informal collaborative systems
- 10. deconstructing PIM Personal – community, organisation, friends – personal management of shared/common information e.g. Snip!t
- 11. deconstructing PIM Personal Information – knowledge, insight – purpose? … not autotelic – if PIM is designed for PIM it fails – tasks and action e.g. to do lists, calendars, …
- 12. deconstructing PIM Personal Information Management – disorganisaton, dumping, for what? 99% never accessed … Keeping found things found? – insight The Marks are on the Knowledge Worker (Kidd, 1994) – task-focus e.g. PARA (project, area, resource, archive)
- 13. deconstructing PIM Personal • informal collaborative systems • PM of shared/common information Information • knowledge, insight, action • not autotelic – external purpose Management • disorganisaton, filing for what? • insight, task-focus
- 15. PIM in practice
- 16. PIM in practice big ticket players – Office suites – to do, notes, etc – Evernote popular apps – Workflowy – outliner ++ – Notion – strong on data – Obsidian – personal Wiki – Readwise – aggregator
- 17. clicking a tag opens a search window for the tag outliner-style with title line, description, and nested sub-items. rapid text entry using tab/shift-tab Workflowy
- 18. Interlinked wiki-style pages with both semi-structured fields and unstructured text collections of pages can be treated as a database with multiple kinds of views Notion
- 19. note-taking interface allowing external URLs, rich formatting and internal wiki-style links using [[notation]] beneath the surface markdown files Obsidian
- 20. low distraction UI to focus on books and highlights within books Readwise
- 21. lessons simple functionality – allowing rich usage different styles – but with enthusiastic users – not ‘baked bean products’ strong communities of shared practice – ‘hacks’ of usage – some open API for code sharing (c.f. Xerox Buttons)
- 22. guidelines for appropriation • allow interpretation • provide visibility • expose intentions • support not control • plugability and configuration • encourage sharing • learn from appropriation Alan Dix (2007). Designing for Appropriation. in Proc. BCS HCI 2007, https://www.alandix.com/academic/papers/papers/HCI2007-appropriation/
- 24. using technology
- 25. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation – media – applications – devices – people
- 26. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation • not an island – connecting and annotating – cloud sharing and 1970s filing systems – book and web annotation – Semantic Desktop … but URLs … https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/data/{id} raw URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/{id} canonical? how you found it order of authenticating in browser session
- 27. GLOI plug-in OAP originating application LRA local resolution agent GRA global resolution authority metadata passed to appropriate application send GLOI as standard http request http://... local resource located and opened Web World Local Device RAP recipient application (often browser) a web page link to GLOI within it enhanced metadata returned http://... user clicks GLOI link metadata passed to LRA we need GLOIs!
- 28. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation • not an island – connecting and annotating – cloud sharing and 1970s filing systems – book and web annotation – Semantic Desktop – URLs and GLOIs need cross-toll integration
- 29. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation • not an island – connecting and annotating • numbers and data – specific visualisations – e.g. fitness, QS – little for numbers beyond spreadsheets personal numerical information management
- 30. ‘till roll’ to see past calculations basic four function calculator clicking past entry in till roll copies the value into current sum till roll entries can be edited and named calQ
- 31. values can be editable or computed from others ws2 – explorable web calculations
- 32. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation • not an island – connecting and annotating • numbers and data • UI matters – email & folders – Dynalist vs Workflowy – … also habit and investment
- 33. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation • not an island – connecting and annotating • numbers and data • UI matters • AI is the answer? – long history of task inference and automatic filing remember Tom Baker … – LLMs … PIM data small – transfer learning essential …. but what about insight?
- 34. using technology • fragmentation and synchronisation • not an island – connecting and annotating • numbers and data • UI matters • AI is the answer?
- 37. understanding people • organisation: when and why? – collaboration with future self (Bergman and Whittaker, 2016) – Kidd’s marks – do we need it anyway? – search – reactive or proactive direct hyperlinks from other pages, entered as [[LaTeX]] in the markdown free text mentions
- 38. understanding people • organisation: when and why? – collaboration with future self (Bergman and Whittaker, 2016) – Kidd’s marks – do we need it anyway? – search – reactive or proactive – cost–benefit closer – organisation at point of need – Kidd’s marks – organisation for insight
- 39. understanding people • organisation: when and why? • communities and appropriation – support not control – pluggability and configuration – encourage sharing
- 40. understanding people • organisation: when and why? • communities and appropriation • people are different – different practices similar efficiency (Kaye et al. 2006) – ontologies: generic, egocentric, idiosyncratic – cognitive differences – hard to comprehend … including HCI researchers! – different solutions for different people … but how do they collaborate?
- 41. understanding people • organisation: when and why? • communities and appropriation • people are different • emotion management – GTD – The art of stress-free productivity – to-do list – not-done list – done list – magick and quests, gamification
- 42. understanding people • organisation: when and why? • communities and appropriation • people are different • emotion management
- 44. take aways … • informal collaborative systems • purpose & task-centred • fragmentation and integration – GLOIs, cross-tool infrastructure • appropriation by design • emotion matters … designing for solitude
- 45. Deconstructing and Reconstructing PIM Alan Dix https://alandix.com/academic/talks/PIM-seminar-2024/
Editor's Notes
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