| How Do You Make Your Folder? (2008) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Engagement with work involves many sub-activities. Folders and files creation are one of the sub activities which we engaged in achieving our task(s). The objective of this study is to understand how people manage information in these domains: desktop, folders, emails and bookmarks. A semi-structured interview on 17 computer users of different backgrounds has been conducted. The average time taken was 45 to 60 minutes. During the interview sessions, we prompted the users to show us and guide us through their desktop screen, folders, emails and web bookmarks. Using this method, we identified similar patterns among these users in how they make a folder in root directory environment, in emails and in bookmarks. We found two types of folder creations: pre-folder and post-folder. Pre-folder is a when a person creates a folder in advance by knowing what will happen and to achieve at a certain time. Post-folder creation is when a person creates a folder after grouping related files together. | |||||||||||||||||
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