Pikas, Christina K. Personal Information Management Strategies and Tactics used by Senior Engineers., 2007 . In 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Milwaukee, WI (US), 19-24 October 2007. [Conference paper]
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This paper reports the results of an exploratory qualitative study of how senior engineers in a research laboratory environment do personal information management (PIM). Responsive, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four senior engineers. Thirteen themes in four groupings emerged. The four groupings are: organization and retrieval, un-organized aspects, information keeping and preservation, and use of specialized tools. Themes not seen in other studies are: writing to remember and reporting to retrieve, and personal handbooks. The themes are described in detail. Implications for the design of information systems and future work are discussed.
Item type: | Conference paper |
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Keywords: | personal information management, PIM, engineers |
Subjects: | C. Users, literacy and reading. > CA. Use studies. |
Depositing user: | Christina K. Pikas |
Date deposited: | 24 Jan 2008 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:10 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/11029 |
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