'Today' messages: lightweight group awareness via email

Authors:
A. J. Brush;Alan Borning
Affiliations:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Venue:
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2003

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Abstract

'Today' messages are short daily status emails sent by members of a project team to each other. Their original purpose was to take the place of status updates at meetings. However, they had the unexpected additional effect of increasing group task awareness at very low cost. We present the results of a small study of 'today' messages and their effect on group dynamics.