PhD: What Recollections do Email-Based cues prompt?
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If I offered you a subject descriptor of an email you were sent at random from
your inbox what would that provide you with? Would you be able to tell me the
author of the email? Other recipients? Could you find the email in your
client? It is an interesting question because these kind of recollections guide
your navigation when searching for email messages.
It has been firmly established that searching one's personal stores for is heavily influenced by memory; specifically the recollection of the the object you wish to find and the architecture of information space in which you are searching. These recollections mediate one's interaction with the space. The other interesting fact about the question above is how would being supplied with additional fragments benefit the search process. If giving cues such as the subject field of an email spurs recollection of additional details surely this will aid retrieval at the very least alter the search strategy. We shall see! |
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