Am I wasting my time organizing email? A study of email refinding

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3449-3458

  Whittaker, Steve ^a   Matthews, Tara ^a   Cerruti, Julian ^a   Badenes, Hernan ^a   Tang, John ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation threading; Email; Field study; Folders; Management strategy; PIM; Refinding; Search; Usage logging

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATION THREADING; EMAIL; EMAIL CLIENTS; FIELD STUDIES; FOLDER; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; PIM; REFINDING; SEARCH; USAGE LOGGING;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 79958179522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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