Keeping Found Things Found - Projects

	Structuring personal information in a world where everything can be saved Study focusing on the management and organization of personal information around projects — activities that span days or months and involve the coordination of information from multiple sources. — Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant “Structuring Personal Information Collections”
	Personal Project Planner™ prototype The Personal Project Planner™ allows the user to organize information by creating and manipulating a project plan. What appears to the user to be a single plan document is actually a representation of the underlying folder hierarchy containing a collection of files and shortcuts. — Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant “Structuring Personal Information Collections”
	Tales of PIM forum Tales of PIM provides a forum for the discussion of PIM as a study and a practice. People can exchange their thoughts and experiences in several areas including “Problems and Solutions”, “Tools and Tricks” and “News and Announcements”. The forum also serves as research tool by providing a repository of first-hand PIM experiences. — Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant “Structuring Personal Information Collections”
	Understanding the 'what', 'why', 'how' and 'where' of information deliver The project involves analysis of data collected by Alerts.com to understand better the kinds of alerts, reminders and notifications that people want to receive. Understanding when ¨C and where ¨C to present a notification or reminder can help to insure that people get value from information delivered rather than feeling irritated and overwhelmed. — Sponsored by Alerts.com.

Past projects

	Making information mine: ”Placing” vs. “tagging” as models for structuring personal information collections How do people need to manage information over time to make it “theirs”. How do people need to shape and structure their information so that it works in support of the things they want to do? This study specifically compared two basic models of information organization: Organizing information items by placing them into folders or tagging these items with labels. — Sponsored by Google.
	Keeping Found Things Found on the Web: How do users get back to relevant Web pages? Study 1: Keeping new information for later use. People are observed to use a wide range of methods for keeping Web information as they try to anticipate not only whether an item will be needed later but also the circumstances of later use (time, place, form, device, etc.). — Sponsored by the National Science Foundataion under grant “Keeping Found Things Found on the Web”
	Keeping Found Things Found on the Web: How do users get back to relevant Web pages? Study 2: Re-finding and effectively using information. A delayed cued recall task tested the ability of participants to re-access web sites previously visited from three to six months prior. — Sponsored by the National Science Foundataion under grant “Keeping Found Things Found on the Web”
	Keeping Found Things Found on the Web: How do users get back to relevant Web pages? Study 3: Maintaining and organizing personal information collections. Tours of participants' personal information collections show that the organization of information serves a multitude of purposes besides returning to information. — Sponsored by the National Science Foundataion under grant “Keeping Found Things Found on the Web”