PimVis: Exploring and Re-finding Documents in Cross-Media Information Spaces

Sandra Trullemans, Audrey Sanctorum and Beat Signer

09/06/2016

Personal Information Management

Search Tools

Icon Highlights - Fitchett et al. 2013

Windows File Explorer Search

Exploring and Re-finding Support

iMapping - Haller and Abecker 2010

Memsy – Geel and Norrie 2015

Paper Documents

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PIM Solutions in Physical Space

SOPHYA - Jervis and Masoodian 2010

DocuDesk - Everitt et al. 2008

ReacTIVision - Kaltenbrunner and Bencina 2007

Objectop - Khalilbeigi et al. 2013

Contribution

Exploring

Re-findingPimVis

PimVis Setup

Paper Tracking

PimVis GUI

File Explorer Interactions

Augmented Ring binders

PimVis

File Explorer InteractionsPimVis

PimVisContext View Document View

Focus View

Context View

Zoomed-in Context View

Selection of a Context

Document View

Control Panel

Context Explorer

Context Selection

Type Filter

Filter on Paper Documents

Focus View

Focus View of a Paper Document

Re-finding a Digital Document

Re-finding in Physical Space

From the File Explorer to PimVis

Exploring a Paper Document

PimVis Behind the Scene

EUIM OC2

PimVis Backend

Sandra Trullemans and Beat Signer, Towards a Conceptual Framework and Metamodel for Context-Aware Personal Cross-Media Information Management Systems, ER 2014

Formative User Study

8 participants Master and PhD students

Lab setting with given setup6 tasks3 in PimVis, 3 switching between applications

Observation UX Survey Interview

User Experience

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0.5

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1.5

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2.5

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Attractiveness Perspicuity Stimulation Dependability Efficiency

Benefits and Pitfalls

• Starting point is current application

• Hot versus cold documents

• Self-development and configuration

PimVis

Hot Documents

Cold Documents

PimVis Limitations

• Extra functionality required for in-situ use

• Extending with DocTr for paper tracking

• In-situ evaluation

Sandra Trullemans, Ayrton Vercruysse and Beat Signer, DocTr: A Unifying Framework for Tracking Physical Documents and Organisational Structures, EICS 2016

Our Takeaway Message

Context View Document View

Focus View

PimVis: re-finding and exploring documents in cross-media information spaces

References

• S. Trullemans, A. Sanctorum and B. Signer, PimVis: Exploring and Re-finding Documents in Cross-Media Information Spaces, Proceedings of AVI 2016, International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Bari, Italy, June 2016

– http://beatsigner.com/publications/trullemans_AVI2016.pdf