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Translated title of the contribution: False Beliefs Regarding File Sharing

עופר ברגמן, אסתר שר

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Abstract

This study sheds light on false beliefs regarding file sharing. We used a questionnaire (N = 110) to measure the participants’ intuitive opinions regarding cloud-based file sharing vs. sharing files using email attachments. We then compared our results to well-validated scientific findings. The majority of our participants thought that cloud-based file sharing is preferred to email-based sharing, that file retrieval from shared cloud-based repositories is more successful than retrieval from personal repositories after email sharing, and that in the future cloud-based sharing will replace email sharing as the dominant file sharing method. Contrary to these beliefs, research has shown that people encountered difficulties when co-organizing shared files with their collaborators, and were less successful when retrieving shared files from cloud-based shared repositories than from personal repositories after email sharing. These papers point to additional shortcomings of cloud-based file sharing compared to email-based file sharing: The need to agree on a sharing platform (two people using different email software can send a file attachment to each other, however, two people using different cloud-based storage services cannot use them to share a file), control problems (collaborators can mistakenly change or delete the file) and alert problems. Our findings indicate that these previous findings are counterintuitive.
Translated title of the contributionFalse Beliefs Regarding File Sharing
Original languageHebrew
Journalמידעת
StatePublished - 2022

IHP Publications

  • ihp
  • Cloud computing
  • Computer file sharing
  • Electronic mail systems
  • Information behavior
  • Information retrieval
  • Information technology

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