Agent-assisted task management that reduces email overload

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 61-70

  Faulring, Andrew ^a   Myers, Brad ^a   Mohnkern, Ken ^a   Schmerl, Bradley ^a   Steinfeld, Aaron ^a   Zimmerman, John ^a   Smailagic, Asim ^a   Hansen, Jeffery ^a   Siewiorek, Daniel ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Agents; Email classification; Email overload; Intelligent planning; Learning; Radar; Task management

Indexed keywords

E-MAIL OVERLOAD; EMAIL CLASSIFICATION; INTELLIGENT PLANNING; LEARNING; RADAR TASKS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PLANNING; RADAR; USER INTERFACES;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 77951128408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1719970.1719980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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