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William Jones: Aging, Technology, and Keeping Found Things Found
Episode 12
Monday, 23 December, 2024
William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life. Currently he has been working on the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press.Chapters:0:00 - Introduction1:16 - Keeping found things found3:44 - Storing information 5:20 - Using folders8:44 - New ways of searching13:38 - Embodied information and search16:20 - Value of memorization 20:20 - Personal AI assistants 30:20 - Language and thought 35:30 - Thriving in Time42:44 - Aging gracefully 55:16 - Contract between generations1:02:44 - What to look forward to Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
