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Shared Personal Space: Meeting the Needs of Multiple Users and Multiple Purposes

Deborah Barreau, Jaime Teevan, Andrea Japzon and Kristina Spurgin

(Submission #46)


Abstract

This panel will focus on the challenges of sharing workspaces, whether it is in the home, in the workplace, or merely sharing archival or storage space on a server. In keeping with the conference theme, Thriving on Diversity, we will examine both the benefits and challenges of shared workspace. Among the questions to be addressed are the following:

• How do our behaviors change when we move from our personal information environments into shared space?

• How does shared space affect our searching behavior, organizing behavior, labeling and tagging behavior, for examples?

• What about our feelings of trust, privacy, and security with respect to the shared data?

• How do our values affect what we save and what we share?

• What happens when individual goals, methods, or purposes come into conflict? Panelists will discuss these issues with respect to research that is either completed or on-going. Among the panelists will be doctoral candidates from Drexel and UNC-CH as well as more senior researchers, including some who will be presenting papers at the Personal Information Management Workshop to be held prior to the conference. [Since we want to pick speakers who contribute the most relevant papers to the workshop, we cannot name those speakers until those papers have been reviewed and accepted].

Category

SIG SPONSORSHIP?: Digital Libraries (DL)

  
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