An Empirical Study on Personal Information Management Practices Across Scholarly Workflows
Contemporary scholars navigate complex workflows that involve managing vast amounts of information, from literature and experimental data to manuscript writing. While prior research in Scholarly Personal Information Management (Scholarly PIM) shed light on scholarly information management practices, it has yet to fully incorporate the concept of scholarly workflows into its analytical framework. Our study addresses this gap by combining a user survey with guided tour interviews to investigate how scholarly PIM practices work across scholarly activities. By introducing the concept of scholarly workflows into scholarly PIM studies, our preliminary findings provide an empirically grounded view of contemporary scholarly PIM practices and challenges. Our results show that framing scholarly PIM within the full spectrum of scholarly work advances the understanding of scholarly PIM from a workflow-oriented perspective and might inspire the design of future systems and user interfaces that better support scholars' evolving information management needs.
Publication Reference
Xu, Q. and Signer, B.: "An Empirical Study on Personal Information Management Practices Across Scholarly Workflows", Proceedings of CHI 2026 (Poster), International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Barcelona, Spain, April 2026
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