How to Manage Your Inbox: Is a Once a Day Strategy Best?

Abstract

Many people are overloaded by the amount of email they receive. Because of this, a considerable amount of time can be spent every day managing one’s inbox. Previous work has shown that people adopt different strategies for managing their inbox. However, there has been little work examining how the choice of email management strategy impacts the total time that one gives to email activities each day. In the current study seven academics spent one week trying out different email management strategies: either a once–a–day strategy or a frequent strategy. Data on the amount of time spent managing email and subjective feelings towards each strategy were gathered. Results suggest that a once a day email management strategy may be effective in reducing the total time spent dealing with email.

Contributors

Duncan P. Brumby

Conference

Publication date: September 2013

Publication date (Print): September 2013

Pages: 1-6

Affiliations

[ ¹ ]UCL Interaction Centre

University College London

London WC1E 6BT UK

[ ² ]Department of Computing

City University London

London EC1V 0HB UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2013.29

Copyright statement: © Adam Bradley et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2013), Brunel University, London, UK

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Conference name: 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2013)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 27

Conference location: Brunel University, London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 September 2013

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2013)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing