Making It Real: Towards Practical Progress in the Management of Personal
Information
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Jones, William
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Thorsteinson, Caleb
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Thepvongsa, Brandon
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Garrett, Tanner
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.571-582
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Discussion of a need for and potential of a study of human-information
interaction is decades old. However, this discussion gains added impetus as
computing technology and advances in HCI improve the transparency of access to
information and "liberate" this information from dependency on a specific
device for its persistence. But personal information is bound in other ways,
most notably to a supporting application or service and in ways that resist
liberation. This paper argues for a let-it-lie approach where a new class of
applications might be "applied" to the information in situ through an API
supported by its hosting application or service. The approach is illustrated
through review of an itemMirror platform for the development of JavaScript web
applications.