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An Exploratory Study of Personal Calendar Use (809)
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@MISC{Tungare809anexploratory,
author = {Manas Tungare and Manuel A. Pérez-quiñones and Alyssa Sams},
title = {An Exploratory Study of Personal Calendar Use},
year = {809}
}
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Abstract
In this paper, we report on findings from an ethnographic study of how people use their calendars for personal information management (PIM). Our participants were faculty, staff and students who were not required to use or contribute to any specific calendaring solution, but chose to do so anyway. The study was conducted in three parts: first, an initial survey provided broad insights into how calendars were used; second, this was followed up with personal interviews of a few participants which were transcribed and content-analyzed; and third, examples of calendar artifacts were collected to inform our analysis. Findings from our study include the use of multiple reminder alarms, the reliance on paper calendars even among regular users of electronic calendars, and wide use of calendars for reporting and life-archival purposes. We conclude the paper with a discussion of what these imply for designers of interactive calendar systems and future work in PIM research.
Keyphrases
personal calendar use exploratory study initial survey regular user future work personal information management multiple reminder alarm ethnographic study electronic calendar life-archival purpose broad insight specific calendaring solution personal interview interactive calendar system paper calendar calendar artifact wide use pim research
