TY - GEN
T1 - Contextinator
T2 - 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014
AU - Hanrahan, Benjamin V.
AU - Ahuja, Ankit
AU - Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The web browser has become a central workspace for knowledge workers, where they make use of cloud-based applications to access and store their information. While this solution helps reduce the difficulty of syncing information between our numerous devices, it reintroduces and proliferates faults of the desktop, particularly information fragmentation. Information fragmentation is an increasingly important issue, as cloud-based applications typically silo their data, resulting in a replication of storage and organization in the absence of a unifying structure. To probe whether knowledge workers encounter information fragmentation and in what manner, we created Contextinator, a tool that assists in coordinating data for web-based projects. Contextinator provides a method for providing the centralized, unifying structure that cloud based storage makes difficult. Our findings contribute insight into the need for, and appropriateness of, projects as a unifying structure for the web. Our results point to two types of projects that we term ‘preparatory’ and ‘opportunistic’ based on when and for what reason users create them. We discuss the design of our system, the results of our mixed-method evaluation, and our observations about information fragmentation on the web.
AB - The web browser has become a central workspace for knowledge workers, where they make use of cloud-based applications to access and store their information. While this solution helps reduce the difficulty of syncing information between our numerous devices, it reintroduces and proliferates faults of the desktop, particularly information fragmentation. Information fragmentation is an increasingly important issue, as cloud-based applications typically silo their data, resulting in a replication of storage and organization in the absence of a unifying structure. To probe whether knowledge workers encounter information fragmentation and in what manner, we created Contextinator, a tool that assists in coordinating data for web-based projects. Contextinator provides a method for providing the centralized, unifying structure that cloud based storage makes difficult. Our findings contribute insight into the need for, and appropriateness of, projects as a unifying structure for the web. Our results point to two types of projects that we term ‘preparatory’ and ‘opportunistic’ based on when and for what reason users create them. We discuss the design of our system, the results of our mixed-method evaluation, and our observations about information fragmentation on the web.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-27030-2_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-27030-2_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84952668476
SN - 9783319270296
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 179
EP - 194
BT - Web Information Systems and Technologies - 10th International Conference, WEBIST 2014, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Monfort, Valérie
A2 - Krempels, Karl-Heinz
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 3 April 2015 through 5 April 2015
ER -