E-Mail on the Move: Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices with the ifMail Prototype

We propose an integrated approach to email categorization, filtering, and alerting on mobile devices. After a general introduction to the problem, we present the ifMail prototype, capable of: categorize incoming email messages into pre-defined categories; filter and rank the categorized messages according to their importance; and alert the user on mobile devices when important messages are waiting to be read. The second part of the paper describes an extended evaluation of the ifMail prototype, whose results show the high effectiveness levels reached by the system.

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