How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment : a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour

• Main Authors: Khoo, Christopher S. G., Luyt, Brendan, Ee, Caroline, Osman, Jamila, Lim, Hui-Hui, Yong, Sally
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Files Organization; Office
• Online Access: http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/paper293.html; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147565
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Introduction. We report an ongoing study of how people organize their computer files/folders on the hard disk of their office workstations, and discuss the questions being investigated as well as the results of a small survey with twelve subjects. Method. A questionnaire was used to collect informa...