From User Needs to Opportunities in Personal Information Management: A Case Study on Organisational Strategies in Cross-Media Information Spaces
The distinction between filers and pilers is often used in the domain of personal information management (PIM). We conducted a study and based on statistical data and generalisation we argue that the distinction between filers and pilers covers only a minor part of the representative population. Therefore, we have to be careful in analysing and designing systems for filers and pilers only. We are questioning the one-dimensional order variable reflecting Malone's mutually exclusive filing and piling strategies and introduce the concept of an order profile as an alternative for expressing a user's organisational behaviour. Last but not least, we outline how previously established behavioural patterns can be integrated with the presented order profile approach
Publication Reference
Trullemans, S. and Signer, B.: "From User Needs to Opportunities in Personal Information Management: A Case Study on Organisational Strategies in Cross-Media Information Spaces", Proceedings of DL 2014, International Conference on Digital Libraries, London, September 2014
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