...to persuade us NOT to use them sometimes?
''It's in human nature to wonder whether you've got new mail,'' said Alon Halevy... Dr. Halevy and others talk about making e-mail intelligent so that it knows when to interrupt the user.''Suppose you trusted your e-mail system enough that you're alerted to an e-mail only if it's really pertinent right now,'' Dr. Halevy said.
Full story here: You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention (New York Times)
Personally, I've been playing around with a few ideas for helping people manage their email more efficiently.
Posted by Ramit Sethi at February 26, 2005 07:05 AM | TrackBack