Prioritizing unread e-mails: people send urgent responses before important or short ones

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Acknowledgments

Anna L. Cox supervised the design of the study and the data collection, led the writing, and provided funding and insight to the project. The other authors (Jon Bird, Duncan P. Brumby, Marta E. Cecchinato, Sandy J. J. Gould) contributed to the whole project, with Jon Bird designing the field study, constructing the materials and co-supervising the data collection, Duncan P. Brumby and Marta E. Cecchinato contributing actively to the data analysis process, and Sandy J. J. Gould contributing to the writing of the manuscript. The data was collected by Bardi Golriz. This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grants EP/L504889/1 and EP/K025392/1.

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Funding

This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grants [EP/L504889/1 and EP/K025392/1].

Notes on contributors

Anna L. Cox

Anna L. Cox ([email protected], https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/anna-cox) is an HCI researcher with an interest in technology for productivity, work-life balance and wellbeing; she is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the UCL Interaction Centre at University College London.

Jon Bird

Jon Bird ([email protected]. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/people/jon-bird/overview.html) is a pervasive computing researcher with an interest in digital health and well being. He is a senior lecturer in the computer science department at the University of Bristol.

Duncan P. Brumby

Duncan P. Brumby ([email protected], https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/duncan-brumby) is a psychologist with an interest in interaction science; he is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the UCL Interaction Centre at University College London.

Marta E. Cecchinato

Marta E. Cecchinato ([email protected], http://www.cecchinato.me/) is a psychologist with an interest in work-life balance, cross-device experience and computer-mediated communication; she is a senior lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction in the Computer and Information Science Department at Northumbria University.

Sandy J. J. Gould

Sandy J. J. Gould ([email protected], https://www.sjjg.uk) is an HCI researcher with an interest in multitasking, input interactions and crowdsourcing; he is a lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham.