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Characterizing Reading Time on Enterprise Emails by Li, Xinyi; Lee, Chia-Jung; Shokouhi, Milad; Dumais, Susan is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Characterizing Reading Time on Enterprise Emails about?

Email is an integral part of people's work and life, enabling them to perform activities such as communicating, searching, managing tasks and storing information. Modern email clients take a step forward and help improve users' productivity by automatically creating reminders, tasks or responses. The act of reading is arguably the only activity that is in common in most -- if not all -- of the interactions that users have with their emails. In this paper, we characterize how users read their enterprise emails, and reveal the various contextual factors that impact reading time. Our approach starts with a reading time analysis based on the reading events from a major email platform, followed by a user study to provide explanations for some discoveries. We identify multiple temporal and user contextual factors that are correlated with reading time. For instance, email reading time is correlated with user devices: on desktop reading time increases through the morning and peaks at noon but on mobile it increases through the evening till midnight. The reading time is also negatively correlated with the screen size. We have established the connection between user status and reading time:

Author

Li, Xinyi; Lee, Chia-Jung; Shokouhi, Milad; Dumais, Susan

Published

2020

Language

EN