PIM APPLICATIONS-An Explorative Study on Benefits and Barriers

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003

This paper reconsiders the term Personal Information Management System PIMS and compares and contrasts it with the similar terms Individual Information System IIS as discussed by Richard Baskerville and User Generated Information System UGIS as introduced by Philip DesAutels. However, this paper contends (with Baskerville) that it is the personal work system constituted when a human user makes use of a PIMS which exhibits a systemic nature. The paper introduces specific research questions which relate to PIMS and demonstrates their emergence on the basis of reflection or reflexivity. It suggests as a potential contribution the theoretical and practical necessity for modelling a PIMS in order that the PIMS constructed using that model be maximally effective for the individual who uses it. That contention is the subject of ongoing research.

Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2012

The aim of this paper was to present detailed texts about necessities of personal information management (PIM) and has been written by literature survey. Historical investigation of this new born research area showed PIM is an extension to primary personal information management in offices and other bureaucratic centers. PIM is the result of new ICT developments and its followings as information overload and pollution, which is combination of information retrieval, database management systems (DBMS), information science, human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. The research area tries to address to old challenges by new mechanisms. The paper introduced the new born research area and discussed about its appearance, definitions, history, benefits, performance and researches which has been done about it.

2004

Predicting Personal Information Management Systems Use, 2024

Effective management of digital identities and personal data is essential in modern society. Personal information management systems (PIMS) empower people to control their digital identities and personal data. Using the reasoned action approach (RAA) developed by Fishbein and Ajzen (2010), I derived the RAA-Trust Model for PIMS Adoption and investigated factors that might influence U.S. adults’ intention to use PIMS. I also investigated the relationship between the intention to use a PIMS and the actual use of a PIMS. My findings suggested that positive trust, perceived behavioral control (PBC), subjective norms (SN), and behavioral attitude (ATT) may positively influence one’s intention to use a PIMS. Trust had the highest predictive value, followed by SN, PBC, and ATT. Individuals with high behavioral intention to use a PIMS had a statistically significant higher rate of actual PIMS use. A cohort analysis revealed that trust and the social media influencer factor were significant for the sample population and all 12 analyzed cohorts. Background factors such as prior experience with PIMS, age, household income, experience with protection steps, lost time, emotional distress, and reputation damage related to identity- and personal-data misuse appeared to have contributed to participants’ intention to use a PIMS. Certain PIMS features—password manager, identity and credentials management and data sharing utility, data-protection utilities, content authenticity and verified sender signals, and identity and personal data education—also appear to contribute to the intention to use a PIMS.

2007

Abstract. Despite the high penetration of the private sector in mobile devices, only few applications and services based on mobile technologies are used, and those are rather trivial. This article suggests an approach for the identification of alternatives for the support of processes of everyday life by establishing services based on mobile applications, mobile devices and infrastructures for mobile dispositions. Therefore, a framework for the identification, as well as criteria for the analysis of potential fields of application is discussed. Exemplary benchmarks for selected basic processes in private everyday life visualise the suggested framework, which can be adapted for individual methodical analyses.

Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2005

In an ideal of personal information management or PIM, people always have just the right information, in the right form and at the right place, to meet their current information needs. Panelists all participated in a special workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation to consider the challenges of PIM that must be met in order to make significant progress towards this ideal. Panelists will discuss key challenges of and promising approaches to PIM. Approaches discussed involve not only high-technology tools but also practical, teachable everyday techniques of PIM.

Computers in Human Behavior, 2020

Personal information management (PIM) on digital platforms requires multiple practices of saving, organizing and retrieving information. This exploratory study offers a new perspective on PIM practices and focuses on the gaps between their actual and ideal use. Data were collected from 465 participants, 114 males and 351 females, who filled in a questionnaire that we developed and validated for 25 PIM practices. Findings showed significant gaps between actual and ideal usage for 22 out of 25 practices. These gaps were mostly positive, revealing that participants wished to use more practices than they actually did and were not satisfied with their PIM behavior. They were larger for women, and we also found age differences. Larger gaps could be associated with negative feelings and a sense of low efficacy in managing personal information. We offer various explanations of the gaps and suggest implications for consumer training and platform design.

Curricular and co-curricular activities are among the major responsibilities that require proper attention from the students in order to achieve different goals and objectives regarding their bright future. Because of the mismanagement of keeping personal information about these activities, most of students are unable to remember these tasks while they are busy in their studies and therefore, fail to perform these activities at the right time. To handle this issue, they adopt several means including SMS drafts, reminders, sticky notes, notebooks, dairies, and laptops etc., which are limited and unable to fully support students because of several problems including their storage, search, and retrieval. With the availability and widespread adaptation of Android and Smartphones, researchers and developers started thinking of new and innovative ways of managing personal information of people especially students. Today, several apps are available on Google Play for managing personal information of students. However, the existing solutions have limitations including bulky user interfaces especially when the stored information exceeds a certain limit, usability, privacy, and requiring access to Internet for accessing certain services, which becomes a barrier to students especially to those living in rural areas of developing countries where access to Internet is among the major issues. Keeping in view these limitations, we have designed and developed StudentPIMS-a simple and usable Android app that allows students to easily manage personal information about these activities without suffering from cognitive overload caused by existing solutions. We have compared our solution with the existing solutions using some evaluation metrics as well as conducted a survey research among users of the app. Results show that StudentPIMS outperforms the available solutions especially in terms of usability, privacy, and low resource consumption.

2011

There are various techniques used in HCI to understand users' personal information management (PIM). behaviours. In our project, we used a diary as a technique to uncover more dumping factors as embedded behaviour that users might have while managing their information on their personal information spaces (PIS). In this paper, we described how we conducted a diary study and highlighted how our diary study affected our data. Later, we suggest how a diary study can better be implemented in a HCI project.