A scale for measuring email overload

We present an eight-point scale of email overload to assess users’ feelings of email overload. Based on previous research [4], we designed a survey to examine email overload. 292 subjects filled out the survey as part of a software deployment. Eight of our questions worked together well as a scale,...

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Main Authors: Hogan, B, Fisher, D
Format: Report
Published: Microsoft 2006
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Summary:We present an eight-point scale of email overload to assess users’ feelings of email overload. Based on previous research [4], we designed a survey to examine email overload. 292 subjects filled out the survey as part of a software deployment. Eight of our questions worked together well as a scale, which can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of future email systems, as well as to explore current behavior. We show that the scale links well to user behavior.