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 contribution | False Beliefs Regarding File Sharing |
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Original language | Hebrew |
Journal | מידעת |
State | Published - 2022 |
IHP Publications
- ihp
- Cloud computing
- Computer file sharing
- Electronic mail systems
- Information behavior
- Information retrieval
- Information technology
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אירוע להשקת גיליון מיוחד של כתב העת "מידעת" לזכר פרופ' יהודית בר אילן ז"ל
Bar-Ilan, J., Goldin, O., Michaeli-Goldberg, S., Peritz, B. C., Perez, O., Aharony, N., Elmalech, A., Belfer, I., Bergman, O., Gazit, T., Zhitomirsky-Geffet, M., Hadad, S. & Prebor, G.
18/07/22
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