Personal Information Management: PIM 2008 (A CHI Workshop); April 5-6, 2008; Flo

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Subject: CFP: Personal Information Management: PIM 2008 (A CHI Workshop)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Personal Information Management: PIM 2008

A CHI 2008 WORKSHOP
April 5 & 6, 2008, FLORENCE, ITALY

WEBSITE: http://www.pim2008.org

DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 3 October 2007


Personal information management (PIM) is the practice and study of
the activities people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and
retrieve information for everyday use.  PIM is a growing area of
interest as we all strive for better use of our limited personal
resources of time, money, and energy, as well as greater workplace
efficiency and productivity. Good research on the topic is being done
in several disciplines, including human-computer interaction,
database management, information retrieval, and artificial
intelligence.  This two-day workshop will continue momentum towards
building a community of researchers doing PIM-related research.

We encourage participation based on, but not limited to, the
following PIM-related topics:

Understanding PIM
- How people manage their personal information beyond their desktop
- How people find and re-find information
- How people keep and organize information
- Methods and methodologies of PIM fieldwork: How do we study PIM?

Tools and Techniques in Support of PIM
- Mobile and Web-based PIM tools
- Underlying data representation and the unification of personal information
- Tools for finding and re-finding personal information
- Tools for keeping and organizing personal information
- Methods and methodologies for the evaluation of PIM tools
- Teachable/learnable strategies of PIM

数据挖掘研究院

PIM in the Larger World
- Group information management
- Privacy and projection of personal information
- Security, law and policies (public and corporate)
- PIM for different people and situations (e.g., patients, aging populations)

Workshop Theme: The Disappearing Desktop

The traditional desktop computer and even the desktop computing
metaphor may soon be relics of our digital information past.  Many
people now rely primarily on mobile computers, docking only on
occasion to a larger keyboard and display. Other people do not rely