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Personal and private calendar interfaces support private patterns: diaries, relations, emotional expressions

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Martin Tomitsch,

Thomas Grechenig,

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NordiCHI '06: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1182475.1182522

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This paper yields new insights into the emotional value of personal calendars for their users and explores their habits. Using an ethnographic approach we collected data about personal scheduling and revealed highly interesting aspects that are particular valid for private calendars. Interestingly, we found that users still prefer paper calendars although they have access to PDAs and desktop interfaces. One of the main reasons for this is that the calendar represents an integrated all-in-one tool, and the properties of paper support this functionality more efficient than rigid digital calendars. We further observed that calendars have an important emotional value to their users, recording states of relations and emotional expressions like diaries. Based on our results we raise broad issues for the design of calendars that exploit the potential of advanced technology.

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DOI:10.1145/1182475

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Gautam Ghosh
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Dag Svanaes
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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