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FLANNEL: adding computation to electronic mail during transmission

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UIST '02: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/571985.571987

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In this paper, we describe FLANNEL, an architecture for adding computational capabilities to email. FLANNEL allows email to be modified by an application while in transit between sender and receiver. This modification is done without modification to the endpoints---mail clients---at either end. This paper also describes interaction techniques that we have developed to allow senders of email to quickly and easily select computations to be performed by FLANNEL. Through, our experience, we explain the properties that applications must have in order to be successful in the context of FLANNEL.

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Bellotti VDucheneaut NHoward MSmith IGrinter R(2005)Quality Versus Quantity: E-Mail-Centric Task Management and Its Relation With OverloadHuman-Computer Interaction10.1207/s15327051hci2001&2_420:1(89-138)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2005
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327051hci2001&2_4
Bellotti VDucheneaut NHoward MSmith IGrinter R(2005)Quality versus quantityHuman-Computer Interaction10.1207/s15327051hci2001%262_420:1(89-138)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1207/s15327051hci2001%25262_4
Lukose RAdar ETyler JSengupta CHencsey GWhite BChen YKovács LLawrence S(2003)SHOCKProceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web10.1145/775152.775194(291-300)Online publication date: 20-May-2003
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/775152.775194

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UIST '02: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

October 2002

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ISBN:1581134886

DOI:10.1145/571985

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Université Paris-Sud

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Bellotti VDucheneaut NHoward MSmith IGrinter R(2005)Quality Versus Quantity: E-Mail-Centric Task Management and Its Relation With OverloadHuman-Computer Interaction10.1207/s15327051hci2001&2_420:1(89-138)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2005
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327051hci2001&2_4
Bellotti VDucheneaut NHoward MSmith IGrinter R(2005)Quality versus quantityHuman-Computer Interaction10.1207/s15327051hci2001%262_420:1(89-138)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1207/s15327051hci2001%25262_4
Lukose RAdar ETyler JSengupta CHencsey GWhite BChen YKovács LLawrence S(2003)SHOCKProceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web10.1145/775152.775194(291-300)Online publication date: 20-May-2003
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/775152.775194

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