Innovation in extremis: Evolving an application for the critical work of email and information management

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 181-192

  Bellotti, Victoria ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^a,c   Howard, Mark ^a   Smith, Ian ^a   Neuwirth, Christine ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Email; Extreme programming; Personal information management; TaskMaster; ThinkDoc; Workflow; XP

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; LARGE PARTS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; STAND -ALONE;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0038005065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/778712.778740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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