WikiFolders

In the WikiFolders project, I examined the information organization metaphors embodied in the design of file browsers in light of the presentation-oriented model widely used on the Web. This research explored how the metaphor of embedding collections of digital artifacts (via hyperlinks, on the Web) within multimedia documents that describe and annotate them could be used as a personal information organization tool. WikiFolders demonstrates one way that the existing file browsing metaphor might be augmented, allowing individuals to attach personally meaningful metadata to files within the constraints of a well-established interface paradigm.

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Collaborators

• Saul Greenberg

Publications

• Voida, S., & Greenberg, S. (2009). WikiFolders: Augmenting the display of folders to better convey the meaning of files. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009, pp. 1679–1682), Boston, Massachusetts, April 4–9. ACM Press.

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