Creating by Me, and for Me - Investigating the Use of Information Creation in Everyday Life

“to figure out this seemingly predictable yet actually dynamic world, individuals need to interact with information to proceed with life (Savolainen, 1995; 2005). During this interactive process, people usually create and curate information resources that differ in form and nature to satisfy their needs (Linder, et al., 2014; Rosenbaum, 2011; Whittaker, et al., 2000). To this end, it is crucial to investigate the creation of information since it helps people navigate and accomplish life activities (Whittaker, 2011).” ⤴️
“we give a detailed analysis of each function of information creation that facilitates our everyday information tasks, demonstrating its potential in making this routine work efficient and engaging.” ⤴️
“when taking part in grocery shopping and idea collecting, people not only consume but also create information to solve problems and make decision” ⤴️
“grocery shopping is essential in sustaining life, but people tend to collect ideas to satisfy high-level information needs, such as ideation, which usually results in intellectual content (Makri et al., 2019). From these aspects, we argue that concurrently examining the two studies is reasonable and productive to fulfil our goal.” ⤴️
“We regard information creation as a broad category that results from the keeping-track behaviour (e.g., documenting information) and everyday ideation (e.g., organising information)” ⤴️
“We would like to stress the outcome of information-creating behaviour, that is, the usage of information utilised to create new information. We prefer this facet of information-creating behaviour over its processual perspective in an attempt to examine how created information has helped individuals tackle daily tasks by making them efficient and pleasant.” ⤴️
==“Trace found that the creation of information is strongly influenced by people’s acquired knowledge and their experiences gained by interacting with others” ⤴️==
“McKenzie and Davies regarded these records as genre systems connecting people, tasks, time, and places.” ⤴️
“Everyday ideation motivates individuals’ ongoing processes in which people seek, return, and organise what they have for practical and conceptual needs” ⤴️
“People repurpose these digital information environments, making secondary use of the system meaningful to their personal lives (Syn and Sinn, 2015). Throughout our research, we expand on the discussion of information creation beyond personal documentation,” ⤴️
“grocery shopping as a commonplace activity filled with complex decision-making processes and fertile information sources, such as labels, in-store signs, and price tag” ⤴️
“probed the everyday idea collecting process in which individuals navigated a creative website, Pinterest” ⤴️
“So, the list is really in two parts? Lorraine: Yeah. One is the what we’re going to eat for the dinners and then what we need to buy at the grocery store.” ⤴️
“I pinned it on there, and then I saved it. But sometimes I like to print them out because then when I go to the grocery store, I have like the list of what I need.” ⤴️
“included four spaces in his shopping list to limit the number of impulse buys” ⤴️
“the concept of digital boards on Pinterest comes from mood boards used by visual designers to collect, organise, and annotate visual media, such as images and video, in a practical form (Makri, et al., 2019).” ⤴️
“The most prevalent use of these boards is to spark inspiration.” ⤴️
“I think it’s [Pinterest] very easy. And it is perfect for me, because I can pin things and go back to it. It’s a great place to be able to do that cause I have different boards for different things. I can usually easily find stuff when I need to go back to it’.” ⤴️
“later on, Iris seemed to collect things beyond her initial purpose.” ⤴️
“he was specifically interested in finding pictures that included details of a bird’s wings because he was not good at drawing wings. After pinning numerous artistic images of birds on Pinterest, Karl expanded the scope to include images of birds beyond drawings (mostly photographs of birds). The participant stated he did so because photos sparked his interest and he liked his encounters with unexpected information from using the following function on Pinterest: ‘I guess after this ‘Following’ something at certain points, you’ll sometimes find things that you didn’t think you were looking for, but you want to look at it’.” ⤴️
“Ruth only went to Pinterest to seek specific materials that could be used immediately: ‘I know some people make like Pinterest boards, just like idea boards with lots of pictures, sort of brainstorming, but I mostly use it to get to the actual patterns’. D” ⤴️
“Throughout her exploration, the participant did not pin anything and only” ⤴️
“focused on pictures with detailed instructions.” ⤴️
“I have not done that in a while, because it kind of makes me feel like, there’s a lot, there’s so much you could do when you didn’t get any of them done. I have a lot of works in progress and projects going on, so I try not to add more ideas of things I can do’” ⤴️
“Ruth did not make new boards (or pin new images to any existing boards) due to the large amount of stored information that she had not yet consumed.” ⤴️
“Sophia tended to pin pictures from which she could acquire new skills, s” ⤴️
“‘I’ll definitely go back and look [pins] later. It’s kind of like I bookmark a website for recipes. I do go back to that website later and go through the recipes. If I have something in mind I want to make, but I don’t seem to have any recipes for it, I’ll go through my bookmarks. S” ⤴️
“hile Nikki did not pin anything during her observation, she bookmarked useful pages to print later.” ⤴️
“Savina said she had another board where she put many motivational quotes to inspire her when feeling upset. According to the participant, Pinterest plays a key role in brightening her mood.” ⤴️
“shopping lists serve as more than guides; they are tailored to meet the condition of each household” ⤴️
“we would like to demonstrate the personal value, beyond their utilitarian aspect, can influence participants’ information experiences at grocery store” ⤴️
“In McKenzie and Davies’ (2012) study, they drew maps that showed how genre systems, including lists, built social relations with people and tasks. Though Lorraine may be unaware of it, her list supports the social context of a domestic task: that either Lorraine or her husband could do the shopping by using the same li” ⤴️
“Mabel’s example shows how her memories and lived experiences of the past shape information creation (Krikelas, 1983), making such information unique and irreplaceable in the everyday world.” ⤴️
”. By selecting, organising pins online, and utilising them offline as shopping lists, Elisa optimized the function of information creation, underscoring its potential to transfer between online and offline settings. This is an excellent example of making digital information useful in the physical world by using it to support everyday tasks.” ⤴️
“ithout an innovatively compiled list, Joseph might have found it hard to avoid impulse buys. Here, information creation is not merely a collection of information; instead, it lets people stay organised and efficient in potentially overwhelming information environments like grocery stores.” ⤴️
“This finding is consistent with prior literature, which showed that users organised Pinterest boards for both practical and emotional reasons (Linder, et al., 2014; Lindley, et al., 2013). It also supports previous researchers in personal information management (PIM) who argued that people organised information for possible reuse in the future (Jones, 2012; Narayan, 2014; Whittaker, 2011). We advance such discussion by noting the benefit of unexpected but exciting information (known as information encountering, Erdelez and Makri, 2020) in information creation and its influence on everyday idea collecting” ⤴️
“Savina’s example of using Pinterest boards to record lifestyle ideas aligns with prior literature about ideation by which people form ideas to address practical needs (Linder, et al., 2014; Thomson, 2018). In” ⤴️
“Savina regarded Pinterest boards as immediate sources to overcome frustration in her daily life” ⤴️
“dark side of information behaviour (Bawden and Robinson, 2009), since it can hamper the collection and evaluation of new ideas, potentially stifling creativity.” ⤴️
“although using the documentation angle to discuss everyday life tasks is applicable, it may not concurrently capture personal values and the social influence attached to everyday information creation. The prevalence of information in daily life does not simply involve people in a series of consumption behaviour like acquiring and maintaining information. Instead, it triggers the practice of creating something new to fit individual life in contemporary society” ⤴️
“beyond acting as documentation tools (Syn and Sinn, 2015), Pinterest as a digital information environment enables the invaluable creation of information in addressing people’s affective demands.” ⤴️