AMY E MARTIN // Thesis

So I know very little about this tangible computing beyond the marble answering machine and, like, those gizmos in Minority Report. I woke up this morning with an idea in my head about how one could go through one's morning emails by sorting them manually, as in with one's hands. The general thought is that there would either be some kind of device or some kind of interface (gloves perhaps) that simulated device. Certain emails would have certain contours. Something that was sent directly to me and no one else by someone other than a company (an individual) would feel larger or weigh more, perhaps than random almost-spams from, like, Office Depot. There might be some kind of punch-out mechanism that would mimic labeling or starring.

Would this make going through email easier? I'm not sure. I don't really have a problem going through email in the first place but it might make it easier to go through email and, say, listen to the news at the same time. The idea of porting different activities that require (or pretend to require) visual attention to other senses appeals to me, so although I have not delved as deeply into my reading list as I would've liked this summer, this is the direction I'm most interested in at the moment.

Labels: random ideas