Opportunities for Automating Email Processing: A Need-Finding Study

Opportunities for Automating Email Processing: A Need-Finding Study
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自动化电子邮件处理的机会:需求调查研究

DOI:
10.1145/3290605.3300604
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发表时间:
2019
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Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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David R Karger
David R Karger
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作者:
Soya Park;Amy X. Zhang;Luke S. Murray;David R Karger

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电子邮件管理消耗了发件人和收件人的大量精力。其中一些工作可能是自动化的。我们进行了一项混合方法的需求发现研究,以了解:(i)用户想要什么样的自动电子邮件处理,(ii)需要什么样的信息和计算来支持这种自动化。我们的调查包括一个确定需求类别的设计研讨会,一个更好地理解这些类别的调查,以及一个现有电子邮件自动化软件的分类,以确定哪些需求已经被解决。我们的研究结果强调了对以下方面的需求:更丰富的规则数据模型、更多管理注意力的方法、利用内部和外部电子邮件上下文、复杂的处理(如响应聚合)和发件人的支持。为了进一步研究我们的发现,我们开发了一个平台,用于在用户的收件箱上编写小脚本。在我们的研究中发现的自动化功能中,有一半在流行的电子邮件客户端中是不可能的,这激发了新的设计方向。
Email management consumes significant effort from senders and recipients. Some of this work might be automatable. We performed a mixed-methods need-finding study to learn: (i) what sort of automatic email handling users want, and (ii) what kinds of information and computation are needed to support that automation. Our investigation included a design workshop to identify categories of needs, a survey to better understand those categories, and a classification of existing email automation software to determine which needs have been addressed. Our results highlight the need for: a richer data model for rules, more ways to manage attention, leveraging internal and external email context, complex processing such as response aggregation, and affordances for senders. To further investigate our findings, we developed a platform for authoring small scripts over a user's inbox. Of the automations found in our studies, half are impossible in popular email clients, motivating new design directions.