CFP: Personal Information Management (PIM) Workshop 2009

> Call for Participation
>
> Personal Information Management (PIM) Workshop 2009
> held in conjunction with ASIS&T 2009
>
> November 6-7, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia
>
> Theme: "Personal information intersections: What happens when PIM
> spaces overlap?"
>
> The 5th International Workshop on Personal Information Management
> (PIM)
> will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American
> Society
> for Information Science & Technology. PIM has been defined as "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 meet life's many goals… and to fulfill lii
> fe's
> many roles and responsibilities." PIM is an interdisciplinary
> field of
> study, attracting researchers from such diverse disciplines as
> information
> science, cognitive psychology, computer science, human computer
> interaction, and records management. While technological
> developments have
> provided powerful tools for PIM access and support, there are problems
> which these technologies have magnified, including increasing volume
> of
> communication, 24/7 connectivity, and variety of format.
>
> The theme for our workshop is "Personal information intersections."
> We
> have discovered through previous workshops that the messy area where
> different information spaces must interact pose particular
> challenges for
> PIM. The workshop theme embraces such subtopics as group information
> management, information spaces that serve multiple users (at home,
> at work,
> at play), information spaces that serve an individual's multiple
> roles,
> task management, privacy and security, organizational strategies and
> policies, social and psychological aspects of sharing work space, and
> defining and negotiating boundaries.
>
> We invite submissions related to the theme in the following
> categories:
>
> • Contributed papers (research or theoretical papers)
> • Short, poster-length position papers
> • Demos (submission should be a short paper to be reviewed)
> Papers should be submitted to:
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pim2009 no later than
> midnight
> Pacific Daylight Time on June 15, 2009. Submissions will be peer
> reviewed
> and participants will be notified of acceptance by August 7, 2009.
>
> For more information, please consult the PIM Workshop Web site at
> http://www.pimworkshop.org/2009 or contact the organizers directly
> if you
> have questions or want to volunteer.
>
> Co-Chairs:
> Deborah Barreau (barreau@email.unc.edu), Jaime Teevan
> (teevan@microsoft.com), Jacek Gwizdka (pim2009@gwizdka.com)
>
> Organizing Team:
> Rob Capra
> David Elsweiler
> Kirstie Hawkey
> William Jones
> Manuel Perez-Quinones
> Manas Tungare
>
>