Getting to the Information you Already have

Abstract

Knowledge workers need to find information but even when it is stored on their local computer systems, finding it can be costly. There are many researchers working on solutions to reduce these costs, but there has been little research into exactly what these costs are, and what the ties are between these costs and users' choices between ways to access their local information. This paper provides a methodology for investigating such issues, and reports empirical results on ways of accessing local, task-relevant resources "e.g. document files", their associated costs, and users' sensitivities to certain kinds of costs. Our results fill in gaps in what has been known about the problem, thereby helping to inform research on solutions to the problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 05, 2005
Accession Number
ADA471260

Entities

People

  • Anton Dragunov
  • Evelyn Wick
  • Jonathan Herlocker
  • Juliana Lynn
  • Kevin Johnsrude
  • Margaret M. Burnett
  • Simone Stumpf
  • Vidya Rajaram

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Digital Information
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Frequency
  • Investments
  • Learning
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Questionnaires
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.