Prototype: Bloom
This piece involves moving an emergent function of email—task management—out of the inbox and into a physical object external to the computer. Drawing on the ideas of ubiquitous computing, this project focuses on combining an existing behavior, starring items in an inbox, with a familiar metaphor, the desktop plant.By endowing an everyday object with computing intelligence, this prototype tests the theory that moving seamlessly from the periphery to the center of attention eases technological overload. It also provides a calm, less judgemental display of task management. Ideally this would be a physically tactile and tangible plant, but in the face of the current constraints of botany, the task plant, Bloom, is presented as a digital prototype programmed in Processing and displayed on a touchscreen submonitor.
Bloom prototype in action. I am using a set of my own email for the week of December 1 - December 7.
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