Evaluating a Personal Communication Tool: Sidebar

Mesarina, Malena ; Jain, Jhilmil ; Sayers, Craig ; Close, Tyler ; Recker, John

HP Development Company

关键词: personal communication;    browser plug-in;    longitudinal user study;    diary study;    usability evaluation;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2009-157

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

By more closely integrating email with the web we aim to bring organization to email and more collaboration to the web. To this end we developed the Sidebar [1] a web-browser plug which displays email relevant to the currently displayed web page. Sidebar allows for serendipitous email discovery, provides organization for email discourse, and merges private information from a user's personal email archive with public information from mailing lists and web pages.