skip to main content
10.1145/2541016.2541097acmotherconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesozchiConference Proceedingsconference-collections
research-article

Family room: reducing email overload

Published:25 November 2013Publication History

ABSTRACT

This paper introduces Family Room, a cross-platform solution to address email overload associated with personal information management (PIM), bridge the intergenerational disparity in technology use, and enhance reminiscence within geographically dispersed families. In response to the OzCHI 2013 24-hour Student Design Challenge, to design the future of email, this proposal focuses on families' use of email alongside other communication tools for managing digital possessions. The aim was to identify an approach to reduce email burden while supporting users' ability to connect with their family through a familiar platform. As this concept was designed and prototyped within 24 hours, further exploration and evaluation is recommended.

References

  1. Capra, R. & Teevan, J. Personal information management in a socially networked world. In Proc. CSCW 2012 Companion, ACM Press (2012), 1--2. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  2. Jones, W. Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. (2007). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  3. Lindley, S. E. Marshall, C. C., Banks, R., Sellen, A., & Regan, T. Rethinking the web as a personal archive. In Proc. WWW 2013. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (2013), 749--760. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  4. Marshall, C. C. How people manage personal information over a lifetime. Personal information management. University of Washington Press, 57--75.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  5. McAfee, A. The 9X Email Problem. andrewmcafee.org. Retrieved 21 September, 2013, from: http://andrewmcafee.org/2006/09/the_9x_email_problem/Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  6. Odom, W., Sellen, A., Harper, R. & Thereska, E. Lost in Translation: Understanding the Possession of Digital Things in the Cloud. In Proc. CHI 2012, ACM Press (2012), 781--790. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  7. Pedell, S., and Vetere, F. Visualizing Use Context with Picture Scenarios in the Design Process. In Proc MobileHCI 2005, ACM Press (2005), 271--274. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  8. Pruitt, J., & Grudin, J. Personas: practice and theory. In Proc. DUX 2003, ACM Press (2003), 1--5. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  9. Sellen, A. J. & Whittaker, S. Beyond total capture: a constructive critique of lifelogging. Communications of the ACM 53, 5 (2010), 70--77. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  10. Webber, S. E., Heffernan, K. J., Rostami Yeganeh, B., Estrada, F., Augstkalns, D. Family Room Prototype: OzCHI24 Challenge. Retrieved 22 September, 2013 from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb0hiBS2RhGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar
  11. Whittaker, S. Personal information management: From information consumption to curation. Annual review of information science and technology 45, 1 (2011), 1--62.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  12. Whittaker, S., Bellotti, V. & Gwizdka, J. (2006). Email in personal information management. Communications of the ACM 49, 1 (2006), 68--73 Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

Index Terms

  1. Family room: reducing email overload

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Login options

    Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

    Sign in
    • Published in

      cover image ACM Other conferences
      OzCHI '13: Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
      November 2013
      549 pages
      ISBN:9781450325257
      DOI:10.1145/2541016

      Copyright © 2013 Owner/Author

      Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

      Publisher

      Association for Computing Machinery

      New York, NY, United States

      Publication History

      • Published: 25 November 2013

      Check for updates

      Qualifiers

      • research-article

      Acceptance Rates

      OzCHI '13 Paper Acceptance Rate34of70submissions,49%Overall Acceptance Rate362of729submissions,50%

    PDF Format

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader