The report summarises a survey of thirty office filing systems, and the factors which influence information storage and retrieval behaviour. Factors fall into three categories: information characteristics, dealing with features of information received; information organisation, which characterises users' access requirements; and conceptual considerations, which address the interaction of users' cognitive processes with externally stored information.
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