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PIM Research. Jaime Teevan MIT, CSAIL. Temperance Silence Order Resolution Frugality Industry Sincerity Justice Moderation Cleanliness Tranquility Chastity Humility. Temperance Silence Order Resolution Frugality Industry Sincerity Justice Moderation Cleanliness
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PIM Research Jaime Teevan MIT, CSAIL
Temperance Silence Order Resolution Frugality Industry Sincerity Justice Moderation Cleanliness Tranquility Chastity Humility
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Personal Information Management • Define PIM • Active research areas • Interesting open questions Jones, W. Personal Information Management. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST). Jones, W. and Teevan, J. (Eds.). Readings in Personal Information Management. University of Washington Press.
Personal Information Management • Information • E.g., the date of an exam • Information item • A packaging of information • E.g., handout, URL of the course Web page • Information form • Defined by the tools • E.g., paper, email, PDF, Word document
Personal Information Management • Information a person keeps • Notes taken in class • Information directed to a person • Handouts given in class • Information experienced by a person • Class Web page visited by the student • Information about a person kept by others • Course registration status with registrar
Personal Information Management • Information management • Keeping and organizing • Sharing and maintaining privacy • Evaluating strategies • Information use • Understanding • Finding and re-finding
Research Directions • Understanding PIM • Solutions for PIM • Tools • Training • PIM and the individual • PIM and other people • Privacy • Sharing
Open Questions • What are the right tools for PIM? • Can tools make PIM invisible? • How do tools affect behavior? • Can we teach effective PIM? • Who owns one’s personal information?
“Do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.” - Benjamin Franklin Jaime Teevan, teevan@mit.edu