Presentation given at AVI 2016, International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Bari, Italy, June 2016 ABSTRACT: Over the last decade, we have witnessed an emergence of Personal Information Management (PIM) solutions. Despite the fact that paper documents still form a significant part of our daily working activities, existing PIM systems usually support the organisation and re-finding of digital documents only. While physical document tracking solutions such as RFID- or computer vision-based systems are recently gaining some attention, they usually focus on the paper document tracking and offer limited support for re-finding activities. We present PimVis, a solution for exploring and re-finding digital and paper documents in so-called cross-media information spaces. The PimVis user interface enables a unified organisation of digital and paper documents through the creation of bidirectional links between the digital and physical information space. The presented personal cross-media information management solution further supports the extension with alternative document tracking techniques as well as augmented reality solutions. A formative PimVis evaluation revealed the high potential of fully integrated cross-media PIM solutions. Paper: https://www.academia.edu/24295450/PimVis_Exploring_and_Re-finding_Documents_in_Cross-Media_Information_Spaces

1. PimVis: Exploring and Re-finding
Documents in Cross-Media
Information Spaces
Sandra Trullemans, Audrey Sanctorum and Beat Signer
09/06/2016

2. Personal Information Management

3. Search Tools
Icon Highlights - Fitchett et al. 2013
Windows File Explorer Search

4. Exploring and Re-finding Support
iMapping - Haller and Abecker 2010
Memsy – Geel and Norrie 2015

5. Paper Documents
© sott.net

6. PIM Solutions in Physical Space
SOPHYA - Jervis and Masoodian 2010
DocuDesk - Everitt et al. 2008
ReacTIVision - Kaltenbrunner and Bencina 2007
Objectop - Khalilbeigi et al. 2013

7. Contribution
Exploring
Re-finding
PimVis

8. PimVis Setup
Paper
Tracking
PimVis GUI
File Explorer
Interactions
Augmented
Ring binders
PimVis

9. File Explorer Interactions
PimVis

10. PimVis
Context View Document View
Focus View

11. Context View

12. Zoomed-in Context View

13. Selection of a Context

14. Document View

15. Control Panel

16. Context Explorer

17. Context Selection

18. Type Filter

19. Filter on Paper Documents

20. Focus View

21. Focus View of a Paper Document

22. Re-finding a Digital Document

23. Re-finding in Physical Space

24. From the File Explorer to PimVis

25. Exploring a Paper Document

26. PimVis Behind the Scene
EUIM OC2
PimVis Backend
Sandra Trullemans and Beat Signer, Towards a Conceptual Framework and Metamodel for Context-Aware
Personal Cross-Media Information Management Systems, ER 2014

27. Formative User Study
8 participants
Master and PhD students
Lab setting with given setup
6 tasks
3 in PimVis, 3 switching between applications
Observation UX Survey Interview

28. User Experience
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0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
Attractiveness Perspicuity Stimulation Dependability Efficiency

29. Benefits and Pitfalls
• Starting point is current application
• Hot versus cold documents
• Self-development and configuration
PimVis
Hot Documents
Cold Documents

30. PimVis Limitations
• Extra functionality required for in-situ use
• Extending with DocTr for paper tracking
• In-situ evaluation
Sandra Trullemans, Ayrton Vercruysse and Beat Signer, DocTr: A Unifying Framework for Tracking Physical
Documents and Organisational Structures, EICS 2016

31. Our Takeaway Message
Context View Document View
Focus View
PimVis: re-finding and exploring documents in cross-media information spaces

32. References
• S. Trullemans, A. Sanctorum and B. Signer,
PimVis: Exploring and Re-finding Documents in
Cross-Media Information Spaces, Proceedings
of AVI 2016, International Working Conference
on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Bari, Italy, June
2016
– http://beatsigner.com/publications/trullemans_A
VI2016.pdf