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Going with the flow: email awareness and task management

Siu et al., 2006

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Siu N
Iverson L
Tang A
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Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work

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Email use in the context of everyday work practices, or email flow, has not been heavily studied. We present the results of a pair of studies examining how users interlace email with their day-to-day, ongoing work processes. We demonstrate that our subjects use email as a …
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