REMINDER - submissions due next Sun, May 21, 2006
Personal Information Management:
Now that we're talking, what are we learning?
A SIGIR 2006 WORKSHOP
August 10 & 11, 2006, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, USA
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WEBSITE:
http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim06home.htm
DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: 21 May 2006 (Sun)
1. ORGANIZERS
William Jones, University of Washington, USA
Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Ofer Bergman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Robert G. Capra III, Virginia Tech, USA
Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Jacek Gwizdka, Rutgers University, USA
David Maier, Portland State University, USA
Manuel A. Pérez-Quinones, Virginia Tech, USA
Jaime Teevan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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2. Personal Information Management: PIM 2006
Good research relating to Personal Information Management (PIM) is being
done in several disciplines including database management, human-computer
interaction, artificial intelligence and, certainly, information
retrieval. This two-day workshop will continue momentum towards building
a community of researchers doing PIM-related research.
3. Workshop Objectives
· ; Examine where PIM currently
stands as a field of inquiry. What should it encompass?
· ; Determine how to measure
progress in the study of PIM and its practice. What does good and better
PIM looks like?
· ; Revisit and add to the list
of key problems and challenges identified in the PIM 2005 workshop (
http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim05home.htm). What progress has
been made over the past year and a half?
· ; Identify promising approaches
to PIM (that may meet these challenges).
· ; Identify specific
opportunities for a greater, two-way exchange between researchers focused
on PIM and researchers focused on IR. Certainly, IR technologies can
assist people who need to find or re-find information to meet a current
need. Information filtering technologies may also be usefully applied to
assist people with the difficult “keeping” task of deciding where new
information should go. Conversely, the analysis of PIM may challenge and
inspire modification to standard paradigms of IR inquiry.
4. SUBMISSION
4.1 Important Dates
Submissions: Sun, May 21, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006
Final camera ready submissions: June 30, 2006
Workshop: August 10 & 11, 2006
4.2 Requirements
Interested participants should submit a 100 word biography, a one- to
two-thousand-word (2-to-4-page) paper describing their position and
relevant work they are doing. (Please use an ACM SIG Proceedings Template
available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
Accepted participants are also expected to provide a simple poster (in
PDF) summarizing their PIM-related research. Posters will be printed and
posted both days to serve as talking points and conversation
starters. Participants are encouraged to read the report from the
2005 workshop (
http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim05home.htm).
Submissions should be emailed to Jacek Gwizdka,
gwizdka.com">pim2006 gwizdka.com, by midnight
PST on Sun, May 21, 2006. Subject line should begin with “PIM2006”. See
below for more information on workshop theme and topics.
Jacek Gwizdka
Department of Library and Information Science
Rutgers University
pim2006gwizdka.com
5. Additional Workshop Information
5.1 Workshop Theme.
Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to both the practice
and the study of the activities a person performs in order to acquire or
create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, use and distribute the
information needed to complete tasks (work-related and not) and to
fulfill various roles and responsibilities (as parent, employee, friend,
member of community, etc.).
There is a critical need to continue momentum towards building a
community of researchers doing PIM-related research. As an important
first step in this process, thirty leading researchers from various
disciplines convened in Seattle, WA on January 27-29, 2005 for a workshop
on PIM sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (see the final
workshop report at
http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/).
Participants identified the potential for PIM to promote a synergistic
multi-disciplinary dialog. Another sentiment expressed was that research
problems relating to PIM often “fell through the cracks” between existing
R&D efforts.
The workshop led to a special issue on PIM in the Communications of the
ACM (January, 2006 issue). Participants also expressed an interest in
re-convening periodically and in connection with other conferences such
as SIGIR, SIGCHI and ASIST
(http://www.asis.org/) – each of which
attracts a substantial subset of people doing PIM-related
research.
The upcoming SIGIR 2006 conference in Seattle represents an excellent
opportunity to continue the momentum begun by the original workshop and
also to engage a larger community of people involved in information
retrieval research that relates directly to PIM.
5.2 Workshop Topics
We encourage participation based on, but not limited to, the following
PIM-related topics:
Understanding PIM
· How Do People Find and
Re-Find Information?
· ; How Do People Keep
Information for Later Use?
· ; How Do People
Organize?
· ; Methods and
Methodologies of PIM Fieldwork: How Do We Study PIM?
Tools & Techniques in Support of PIM
· Tools for Searching
Personal Information
· ; Tools for Structuring
Personal Information
· ; Underlying Data
Representation and the Unification of Personal Information
· ; Email and PIM
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