The Roles of Profession and Gender in Some PIM Tasks
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Chen Ling; Guangfeng Song
- Source
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783642025556
HCI (8)
- Subject
- Knowledge management
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
business.industry
Applied psychology
Individual difference
Personal information management
Psychology
Cluster analysis
business
- Language
In this paper, the roles of selected individual difference factors were examined in some personal information management (PIM) tasks. A questionnaire was completed by 295 participants regarding their personal characteristics, retrieval of previously saved information, and selective use of multiple computers. Clustering of individual difference factors suggested further analysis of profession and gender as classifiers. Profession seemed to modulate the behaviors and attitudes of users in these PIM tasks. And certain gender difference in PIM tasks could be explained by different expectations or standards.