Category: CSCW IR
Abstract: The Information Lens provides electronic mail
        users with the ability to write rules that
        automatically sort, select and filter their
        messages. This paper describes experiences of 13
        volunteer users of the rules facility. In
        particular: people without significant computer
        experience can create and use rules; useful rules
        can be created based on the fields present in all
        messages; rules are used for both prioritizing and
        sorting messages; delete rules are used primarily to
        filter out messages from low-priority distribution
        lists.
Bibtype: InProceedings
Booktitle: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human
        Factors in Computing Systems
Author: Wendy Mackay
        T. W. Malone
        K. Crowston
        Ramana Rao
        D. Rosenblitt
        S. K. Card
Month: April 30-May 4
Title: How do experienced Information Lens users use rules?
Note: email, asynchronous conferencing, evaluation
Year: 1989
Address: Austin, Texas
Publisher: ACM Press