HCI Bibliography

Excellent Human-Computer Interaction Resources.

Email's Efficiency Falls in Terms of Promptness, Convenience and Credibility

Via In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People

The reasons given for shunning email are that it’s impossible to tell whether an addressee has received a message right way and replies are not immediately forthcoming. Still another reason is that you send messages through SMS or messenger as if you were playing a game, while doing so through email makes you feel as if you are doing homework or performing a task. “The new generation hate agonizing and waiting and tend to express their feelings immediately,” said Professor Lee. “The decline of email is a natural outcome reflecting such characteristics of the new generation.”