EmailValet: Managing email overload through private, accountable crowdsourcing

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1291-1300

  Kokkalis, Nicolas ^a   Köhn, Thomas ^a   Pfeiffer, Carl ^a   Chornyi, Dima ^a   Bernstein, Michael S ^a   Klemmer, Scott R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Access control; Crowdsourcing; Email overload; Human assistants; Task management

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; E-MAIL OVERLOAD; EMAIL CLIENTS; FIELD STUDIES; HUMAN ASSISTANTS; REMOTE ASSISTANT; SLIDING-WINDOW; TASK MANAGEMENT;

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84874912097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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