Group information management
Encyclopedia
Erickson uses the phrase group information management or GIM, for short, to refer to personal information management (PIM)
“as it functions in more public spheres.” People acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items to support individual needs. But these PIM activities are usually embedded in group or organizational contexts (Lutters, Ackerman & Zhou, 2007) and people usually perform these activities with sharing in mind (Erickson, 2006). The act of sharing moves personal information into spheres of group activity and also creates tensions that shape what and how the information is shared. The practice and the study of GIM focuses on this interaction between personal information and group contexts.
Personal information management
Personal information management refers to the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items such as documents , web pages and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks and fulfill a person’s various...
“as it functions in more public spheres.” People acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items to support individual needs. But these PIM activities are usually embedded in group or organizational contexts (Lutters, Ackerman & Zhou, 2007) and people usually perform these activities with sharing in mind (Erickson, 2006). The act of sharing moves personal information into spheres of group activity and also creates tensions that shape what and how the information is shared. The practice and the study of GIM focuses on this interaction between personal information and group contexts.
Issues in the study and practice of GIM
- formerly private calendar entries could be used for ends other than scheduling meetings
- what users choose to reveal or conceal
- how their disclosure of personal information is related to the ends that they hope to achieve
- the ethics of ‘counterfeiting’ links or conspiring to garner ‘inauthentic’ recommendations to increase their stature in the system.
- complex questions of privacy and access and ownership. (user control, privacy and trust)
- user reliance on system defaults
Tool support for GIM
- Group calendaring
- Social networking
- Patient medical records
- Collaborative filtering and recommendations
- Collaborative tagging
- File sharing and presentation
See also
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- Human-Computer Interaction
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