Email Visualizations to Aid Communications
by Steven L. Rohall, Daniel Gruen, Paul Moody, Seymour Kellerman
IBM Research,
2001
Language:
English
Note: The attached paper was presented at the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2001, October 22-23, 2001, San Diego, CA.
Abstract
Electronic mail has become the most widely used business productivity application. However, people increasingly feel frustrated by their email. They are overwhelmed by the volume, lose important items, and feel pressure to respond quickly. Though email usage has changed, our email clients largely have not.
This paper describes our work on using various information visualization techniques (trees, timelines, and low-resolution overviews) in a new email client. These visualizations highlight the relationships among messages and between the people who exchange email.
