COMPUTING RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK [March 8 - March 15]
Stanford Research Project Uses Crowdsourcing to Organize Inboxes
Handing over your car keys to a complete stranger is an accepted risk for the benefit of valet parking. But what about handing over access to your inbox for the benefit of increased productivity?
Researchers at Stanford University are finding that people could be willing to do just that—with the right security in place.
EmailValet, a graduate research project at Stanford, finds remote assistants through the crowdsourcing-for-hire Web site oDesk, then allows them to read a user’s messages and create a to-do list from the information they’ve read. Like some valet keys that allow parking attendants to open car doors and start the engine but prevent them from getting into the glove compartment or the trunk, EmailValet lets users select what kinds of e-mails their assistants can read.
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Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Researchers:
Nicolas Kokkalis (Stanford)
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