Abstract:

Several recent researches stress this tricky problem of personal information management. Personal information management is related “to both the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items”. But this field is often considered as a part of the human computer interface aspect of information systems. This means that most researches in this field are focused on technology and tool’s functionalities. They rarely address users’ needs or the way people proceed to manage their personal information with the existing tools. A tool can help people to remind information. It can also help to reactive knowledge but it can't give an operational knowledge also call a competence to someone who not owns this knowledge previously. Others problems seems not to be addressed as the availability of information due to the obsolescence of the tools and data formats evolution through time. That kind of questions lead us to start a research project focused on the way people manage their own personal memory. Our research addresses different aspects of information management. As a case study, we have explored the way that a structuring information tool could help students to build a report about a project assignment. We plane also to lead a survey to describe the different ways people collect, gather, reuse and share information. We have also launch a review of existing tools in the domain of personal information management. We would like to take benefit of the conference to present our work and views about several points related to personal information management We will be also very pleased to exchange on what could be done to perform a valuable research project on that topic.