Human factors in information filing and retrieval

Session Overview: The development of, and increased reliance on, advanced workstations by a variety of users is creating the need for more user oriented filing and retrieving systems. With manuscripts, reports, personal mail, and data being stored in computers, the need for simplifying the storage and access of this information is increasing in importance. Part of this simplifying process has to address the problem of remembering file structure and file names, keywords, passwords, and other retrieval cues all of which can be very taxing to the user. The purpose of this session is to focus on those cognitive issues which affect user performance and satisfaction in the filing and retrieving of information from computer systems.