Friday, June 24, 2005
Email handling (CHI perspective)
Tanks to Mathemagenic for this - but it relates to the discussions the other day from the Research Awayday - the inefficiences caused by email (summary: social as much as technological, psychological as well as practical). The CHI paper suggests that users deal with all the not important stuff, and then deal with the key things and the junk. Or you can be like others, and not deal with any of it. Me, I can't stand the time wasted in deciding if I can afford to delete it - but then I had my inbox 'helpfully archived and moved to my filestore' -trnaslation: you can't access it from home...
Tanks to Mathemagenic for this - but it relates to the discussions the other day from the Research Awayday - the inefficiences caused by email (summary: social as much as technological, psychological as well as practical). The CHI paper suggests that users deal with all the not important stuff, and then deal with the key things and the junk. Or you can be like others, and not deal with any of it. Me, I can't stand the time wasted in deciding if I can afford to delete it - but then I had my inbox 'helpfully archived and moved to my filestore' -trnaslation: you can't access it from home...
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