A diary study of information capture in working life

Barry Brown, Abigail Sellen & Kenton O'Hara. 2000.

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Despite the increasing number of new devices entering the market allowing the capture or recording of information (whether it be marks on paper, scene, sound or moving images), there has been little study of when and why people want to do these kinds of activities. In an effort to systematically explore design requirements for new kinds of information capture devices, we devised a diary study of 22 individuals in a range of different jobs. The data were used to construct a taxonomy as a framework for design and analysis. Design implications are drawn from the framework and applied to the design of digital cameras and hand held scanners.

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Citation

Brown, B. A. T., Sellen, A. J., & O'Hara, K. P. (2000). A diary study of information capture in working life. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 438–445). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332472, doi:10.1145/332040.332472

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/332040.332472, author = {Brown, Barry A. T. and Sellen, Abigail J. and O'Hara, Kenton P.}, title = {A diary study of information capture in working life}, year = {2000}, isbn = {1581132166}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332472}, doi = {10.1145/332040.332472}, abstract = {Despite the increasing number of new devices entering the market allowing the capture or recording of information (whether it be marks on paper, scene, sound or moving images), there has been little study of when and why people want to do these kinds of activities. In an effort to systematically explore design requirements for new kinds of information capture devices, we devised a diary study of 22 individuals in a range of different jobs. The data were used to construct a taxonomy as a framework for design and analysis. Design implications are drawn from the framework and applied to the design of digital cameras and hand held scanners.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, pages = {438–445}, numpages = {8}, keywords = {voice recorders, scanners, information capture, document use, digital cameras, diary study, appliances, PDAs}, location = {The Hague, The Netherlands}, series = {CHI '00} }