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Exploring Memory in Email Refinding

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David Elsweiler *
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Mark Baillie
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Ian Ruthven
DOI:10.1145/1402256.1402260delete
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Human memory plays an important role in personal information management (PIM). Several scholars have noted that people refind information based on what they remember and it has been shown that people adapt their management strategies to compensate for the limitations of memory. Nevertheless, little is known about what people tend to remember about their personal information and how they use their memories to refind. The aim of this article is to increase our understanding of the role that memory plays in the process of refinding personal information. Concentrating on email re-finding, we report on a user study that investigates what attributes of email messages participants remember when trying to refind. We look at how the attributes change in different scenarios and examine the factors which impact on what is remembered.
Keywords:
Design
Human Factors
Email refinding
information refinding
memory
user study
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems cover
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
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university of strathclyde
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