Dr. Ofer Bergman

Information Studies Department, Sheffield University

oferbergman at gmail dot com

New: Our recent user-subjective approach article has won the Best JASIST Paper Award for 2009. According to the jury, “The paper was considered to be well-argued and documented, effective, intelligible, and potentially useful and applicable.” For a quick look at the approach see the User-Subjective Web Site.

Research Interests:

· Personal Information Management

· Human-Computer Interaction

· Information Retrieval

Selected Publications:

Tucker, S., Bergman, O, Ramamoorthy, A. & Whittaker, S. (2010). Catchup: A useful application of time travel in meetings. Accepted to the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Hardof-Jaffe, S., Hershkovitz, A., Abu-Kishk, H., Bergman, O., & Nachmias, R. (2009). How do Students Organize Personal Information Spaces? In Barnes, T., Desmarais, M., Romero, C., & Ventura, S. (Eds.) Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Proceedings. Cordoba, Spain. July 1-3, 2009.

Bergman, O., Tucker, S., Beyth-Marom, R., Cutrell, E., & Whittaker, S. (2009). It's not that important: Demoting personal information of low subjective importance using GrayArea. Proceeding of CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (pp. 269-278), Boston, USA.

Whittaker, S., Bergman, O., & Clough, P. (2009). Easy on that trigger, dad: A long term family pictures retrieval study. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Online First).

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., Nachmias, R., Gradovitch, N., & Whittaker, S. (2008). Advanced search engines and navigation preference in personal information management. Special Issue of ACM TOIS on Keeping, Re-finding and Sharing Personal Information 26(4): pp. 1-24.

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., & Nachmias, R. (2008). The user-subjective approach to personal information management systems design: evidence and implications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., Nachmias, R., Gradovitch, & N. Whittaker, S. (2008). Type of search engine and personal information retrieval: Windows vs. Linux (in Hebrew). Proceeding of Chais conference for learning technologies (pp. 17-22). Ranana, Israel. Best JASIST Paper award for 2009.

Bergman, O. (2006). The use of subjective attributes in personal information management systems. Ph.D. Dissertation (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., & Nachmias, R. (2006). The project fragmentation problem in personal information management. Proceeding of CHI 2006 conference on human factors and computing systems (271-274), Montreal, Canada.

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., & Nachmias, R. (2006). What is so personal about the personal computer? – Subjective attributes in personal information management (in Hebrew). Proceeding of Chais conference for learning technologies (pp. 109-113). Ranana, Israel.

Bergman, O., Boardman, R., Gwizdka, J., &, Jones W. (2004). Personal information management. Extended abstracts of the 2004 conference on human factors and computing systems (pp. 1598-1599), Vienna, Austria.

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., & Nachmias, R. (2003). The use of subjective attributes in personal information management systems - initial results. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 40 (pp. 509-510) Long Beach, CA, USA.

Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., & Nachmias, R. (2003). The user-subjective approach to personal information management systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54(9): pp. 872-878.

Bergman, O., & Nachmias, R., (2003). Method and System for Projectwise Management of Computer Data Objects. U.S. patent application 10/400,409.

Bergman O., Beyth-Marom R., Hadar D., & Dekel A., (2000). From “learning-by-viewing” to “learning-by-doing”: A video annotation educational technology tool. Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2000, World Conference on Educational Multimedia Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1555-1556). Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Dekel A., & Bergman, O. (2000). Synopsus: a personal summary tool for dynamic visual media. CHI '00 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 4-5). Hague, The Netherlands.

Bergman, O. & Dekel, A. (1999). Visual Medium Annotator. U.S. patent application 128,300.

Bergman O. (1999). Wait for me! – reader control of narration rate in talking books. Reading Online, The International Reading Association.

Gur-Ziv H., & Bergman, O. (1998) System and Method for Teaching to Read. U.S. patent application 124,948.

Bergman, O. (1997). The effect of control over the narration's rate in reading while listening testing poor and normal readers. M.A. Dissertation (in Hebrew), Bar-Ilan, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Bergman, O. (1994). Reading Tutoring System. Israeli patent application 110883.

Personal

Married to Rutu Modan, father to Michal and Hillel.