The pervasive availability of smartphones and their connected external sensors or wearable devices can provide a new public health data collection capability. Current research and commercial efforts have concentrated on sensor-based collection of health ...

Primary and secondary K-12 teachers form the essential core of children's formal learning before adulthood. Even though teaching is a mainstream, information-rich profession, teachers are understudied as information users. More specifically, not much is ...

A body sensor network (BSN) is typically a wearable wireless sensor network. Security protection is critical to BSNs, since they collect sensitive personal information. Generally speaking, security protection of BSN relies on identity (ID) and key ...

Computer users today rely on a wide variety of software tools to manage an ever-increasing amount of information and resources. We developed the Global Information Gatherer (GIG) system to help students in higher education manage, understand, and keep ...

Web forms are massively used as a very effective way for user interaction with information systems. Notwithstanding, filling in forms with personal data can be tedious and repetitive. Due to legal and technical constraints, full interoperability of ...

Folder navigation is the main way that personal computer users retrieve their own files. People dedicate considerable time to creating systematic structures to facilitate such retrieval. Despite the prevalence of both manual organization and navigation, ...

In this article a set of requirements for the design of a personal document management system is presented, based on the results of three research studies (Bondarenko, [2006]; Bondarenko & Janssen, [2005]; Bondarenko & Janssen, [2009]). We propose a ...

In this article, we present the results of a study that systematically explored “externalized knowledge” in the context of office work. The aim of the study was to investigate what knowledge information workers externalize into their physical ...

This study revisits managers who were first interviewed more than 10 years ago to identify their personal information management (PIM) behaviors. The purpose of this study was to see how advances in technology and access to the Web may have affected ...

Personal Information Management (PIM) is an activity in which an individual stores personal information items to retrieve them later. In a former article, we suggested the user-subjective approach, a theoretical approach proposing design principles with ...

The design of very small databases for smart cards and for portable embedded systems is deeply constrained by the peculiar features of the physical medium. We propose a joint approach to the logical and physical database design phases and evaluate ...

People now have available to them a diversity of digital storage devices, including palmtops, cell phone address books, laptops, desktop computers and Web-based services. Unfortunately, as the number of personal data repositories increases, so does the ...

As the business environment becomes more complex and dynamic, it becomes increasingly vital for top executives to scan the information environment to identify strategic threats and opportunities. This article seeks to understand the strategic scanning ...