Helping Students with information fragmentation, assimilation and notetaking

Yolanda Jacobs Reimer, Melissa Bubnash, Matthew Hagedal, Peter Wolf

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Abstract

The problem of information fragmentation is especially acute for today's college students who manage and assimilate information in various forms while completing many of their academic tasks, and who must do so within the confines of standard software applications. The goal of this research is to provide students with a novel information assimilation and notetaking tool that helps them more efficiently manage their electronic information and overcome some of the fragmentation challenges they routinely experience. Our Global Information Gatherer prototype allows students to view, edit and store files of different types from within a single interface, and provides an integrated web browser and notetaking functionality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJCDL'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Pages15-18
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL'09 - Austin, TX, United States
Duration: Jun 15 2009Jun 19 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
ISSN (Print)1552-5996

Conference

Conference2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL'09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin, TX
Period06/15/0906/19/09

Keywords

  • Information assimilation
  • Information fragmentation
  • Notetaking
  • PIM
  • Students in higher education
  • User interface design

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