Week 8 exercise

Email

1. Add to contact

The add to contact function of E-mail can be replaced by the physical action of putting a person’s card on a receiver connected to your computer, like how SKAL works. This will require that the person you want to add have their information stored on a chip which is built in their card.

2. Send E-mail to a certain person

Likewise, if you put the card of someone who is already in your contact, two boxes will pop up. One is the detail of the person, the other is the compose e-mail box with the receiver already filled in with the person’s e-mail address.

3. Move a mail to Junk

A rubbish-bin-like controller can be collected to the computer, when you are reading an e-mail and find out it is a junk mail, you can step on the paddle of the controller to open the bin, and the e-mail will be moved to your junk mail.

4. Different folders in E-mail

We can also have a couple of physical object which we can store information and can be recognized by the receiver, they represents different folder of your e-mail, like inbox, sent mail, spam etc. When you put one of those object on the receiver, you computer will immediately open up your e-mail and jump to the corresponding folder.

5. Add to important

There is a rubber ball that you can punch while reading an e-mail, when you punch the ball, the current e-mail will be added with an “important” tag. The ball can also measure how hard you punch it, the harder you punch it, the e-mail will have a higher ranking in the important list.

Super Mario

1. Jump Control 1

A sensor can be mounted on the player’s foot, it is wirelessly connected to the computer so it can recognize it when you jump. This is pretty much like the Xbox Kinect, the game character will jump when the player actually jumps.

2. Jump control 2

Alternatively, player can punch a ball to control the jumping of the game character. The sensor in the ball measures how hard the player punch the ball, and the character will jump to a corresponding height. The harder the player punch the ball, the higher the character jumps.

3. Touch the cubes

In order to get reward, the Mario brothers have to jump and touch the cubes with their head. A physical control of this can replace the traditional keyboard or controller. A soft cube with sensor can be hanged on the celling, the player wear a hat with sensors that will recognize if the hat touches the cube. So the player has to jump high enough to touch the cube with their hat, which will allow the game character to get reward.

4. Move the character

Player can wear a sensor on each arm, which can tell when they raise their arm. In order to get the game character to move right, the player has to raise their arm and vice versa.

5. Growing bigger

When the character gets a mushroom and grows bigger, the player will get a larger hat, it will make it easier for the player to touch the cube. But the hat is also heavier, thus make the player less agile.

Twitter.

1. Follow someone

Every body can have a twitter card of themselves that they can exchange with new friends. When you get a new card, you just need to scan it with your phone or computer camera in order to follow the new friend.

2. Notification

When people mention you in one of their tweets, you printer will print a small card for you. You put the card to a reader, which is a device connected to your computer, you will see the tweet show up on the screen no matter what you are doing on the computer at that moment. And you can always store those memories in a box.

3. Share favorite tweets

When you see something very interesting on twitter, you can print out a twitter card which have those interesting tweets stored on it. You share the card with your friends, and they can see those tweets by scanning the card with their phone or computer camera.

4. Upload tweets

When you want to upload a tweet, instead of taking out your phone and typing, you just need to squeeze a ball, which is a mini microphone connected to your phone, and you talk to it. The ball is not very easy to squeeze, so you need to try very hard in order to upload a longer tweet.

5. @ Someone

If you want @ someone in your twitter, you usually need to type their username in. Now with the twitter card, you can just scan their card in while typing your tweet, and they will be @ automatically.