Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Ubiquitous search for smart workspaces

  • Long paper
  • Published:
Universal Access in the Information Society Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

One key goal of personal information management is to let users search all of their information assets easily. As knowledge workspaces evolve, a need to provide ubiquitous search services that allow the user to search anything, from anywhere, at any time becomes increasingly important. A key feature of the smart workspace is the ability to support this access to personal content. Here, several current systems that provide some of these capabilities are examined, and implications for future information access systems are derived.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Anderson, J.: Cognitive Psychology and its Implications. WH Freeman, San Francisco (1991)

    Google Scholar 

  2. Apple Spotlight (2006) Desktop Search Application, http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/spotlight.html [last checked: April 15, 2011]

  3. Becker C, Dürr F (2005) On location models for ubiquitous computing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 9(1): 20–31

    Google Scholar 

  4. Bellotti, V., Ducheneaut, N., Howard, M.A., Smith, I.E.: Taking email to task: the design and evaluation of a task management centered email tool. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Fort Lauderdale, pp. 345–352. ACM, FL (2003)

  5. Bush, V.: As we may think. Atl. Mon. 176(1), 101–108 (1945)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Collins, M.: Ranking algorithms for named-entity extraction: boosting and the voted perceptron. In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 489–496. Philadelphia, PA (2001)

  7. Cutrell, E., Dumais, S.T., Teevan, J.: Searching to eliminate personal information management. Commun ACM 49(1), 58–64 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Czerwinski, M., Gage, D., Gemmel, J., Marshall, C.C., Perez-Quinones, M., Skeels, M.M. et al.: (2006) Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage. Communications of the ACM, Special Issue on Personal Information Management 49(1):44–50

    Google Scholar 

  9. Davies, G., Thomson, D. (eds.): Memory in Context: Context in Memory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chichester (1988)

    Google Scholar 

  10. dtSearch, Desktop Search Application http://www.dtsearch.com [last checked: April 15, 2006]

  11. Ducheneaut, N., Bellotti, V.: Email as Habitat: An exploration of Embedded Personal Information Management. ACM Interactions. 2001 September-October; 30–38 (2001)

  12. Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Cadiz, JJ, Jancke, G., Sarin, R., Robbins, D.C. (2003) Stuff I’ve seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use, Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Toronto, Canada

  13. Google, Google Desktop Search (2006) http://desktop.google.com/ [last checked: March 16, 2011]

  14. Jones, W., Phuwanartnurak, A.J., Gill, R., Bruce, H.: Don’t take my folders away!: organizing personal information to get things done, CHI ‘05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Portland, OR (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  15. Kidd, A.: The marks are on the knowledge worker. In Proceedings of CHI’94 Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 186–191. ACM Press, New York (1994)

  16. Lansdale, M., Edmonds, E.: Using memory for events in the design of personal filing systems. Intl. J. Man-Mach. Stud. 36(1), 97–126 (1992)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Lansdale, M.: The psychology of personal information management. Appl Ergon 19(1), 55–66 (1988). v 3, 25

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Malone, T.: How do people organize their desktops? Implications for the design of office information systems. ACM Trans. Office Inform. Syst. 1, 99–112 (1983)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Morville, P.: Ambient Findability. O’Reilly Press, Sebastopol (2006)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Nutch (2006) http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ [last checked: May 15, 2011]

  21. Raper, J., Gartner, G., Karimi, H., Rizos, C. (2007) A critical evaluation of location based services and their potential. J. Locat.-Based Serv 1(1)

  22. Streitz, N., Magerkurth. C., Prante, T., Röcker, C.: From information design to experience design: smart artefacts and the disappearing computer. ACM Interactions, Special Issue on Ambient intelligence (July & August 2005), 12(4):21–25 (2005a)

  23. Streitz, N., Nixon, P.: The disappearing computer. Commun. ACM 48(3), 33–35 (2005)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Streitz, N.A., Kameas, A., Mavrommati, I. (eds.): The disappearing computer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4500. Springer, Berlin (2007)

  25. Want, R., Russell, D.M.: “Tags, IDs and what to do with them” Distributed Systems Online, 1(1) (Sept 2000)

  26. Whittaker, S., Sidner, C.: Email overload: exploring personal information management of email. In: CHI ‘96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 276–283. ACM Press, New York (1996)

  27. Whittaker, S., Bellotti, V., Gwizdka, J.: Email in personal information management. Commun. ACM 49(1), 68–73 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. X1, X1 Desktop Search (2011), http://www.x1.com/products/ [last checked: May 15, 2011]

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

    Daniel M. Russell

Authors
  1. Daniel M. Russell
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Daniel M. Russell.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Russell, D.M. Ubiquitous search for smart workspaces. Univ Access Inf Soc 11, 337–344 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-011-0244-x

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-011-0244-x

Keywords

Search

Navigation