Abstract
Current personal information management (PIM) tools do not sufficiently recognize the spatio-temporal, hierarchical, or conceptual relations of tasks that constitute our plans. Using behavioral observation methods we analyzed people planning a trip to attend a conference taking place in a region they had little or no prior familiarity with. The resulting open-ended records were coded into higher-level segments and categories. These served as a basis for a cognitive engineering approach, to propose better design principles for spatio-temporally enabled PIM-tools.
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We would like to thank Dan Montello from the University of California, Santa Barbara for his thought-provoking comments and helpful advice during his visit at our institute.
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Abdalla, A., Weiser, P., Frank, A.U. (2013). Design Principles for Spatio-Temporally Enabled PIM Tools: A Qualitative Analysis of Trip Planning. In: Vandenbroucke, D., Bucher, B., Crompvoets, J. (eds) Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_18
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