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

Authors

Deborah Barreau

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360

Email: barreau@email.unc.edu

Jaime Teevan

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, Washington

Email: teevan@microsoft.com

Interesting things happen at the edges of our personal workspaces, where our own space

butts up against that of others. This panel will focus on the challenges of sharing workspaces

– with our families, with our colleagues, and with ourselves across roles, tasks, and locations.

In keeping with the conference theme, Thriving on Diversity, the panel will explore both the

benefits and challenges of shared workspace.

 

Topics to be covered

The topics to be addressed include:

• How do our information behaviors differ between shared and personal spaces?

• Do we, for example, search, organize, label, or tag differently in a shared space?

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

• How do our values affect what we keep private and what we share?

• How does information transition from private to shared and back?

• What happens when individual goals, methods, or purposes come into conflict?

This panel will grow, in part, from the Personal Information Management (PIM) Workshop

being held on the topic immediately prior to the conference. Panelists from the workshop will

summarize the workshop discussion for the ASIST community and highlight key areas of

debate.

In addition to including senior researchers, such as William Jones and Jaime Teevan, the

panel will also include doctoral candidates working in the area, such as Andrea Japzon (Drexel

University). Andrea’s work investigates the value that individuals place on personal

documents, including those in shared space. Based upon participation at past workshops, we

anticipate an international panel, including researchers who are working on systems solutions

for the challenges of shared spaces.

Jaime Teevan (Microsoft) and Deborah Barreau (UNC-Chapel Hill) will moderate.

Acknowledgements

SIG-DL Co-Sponsor