EmoteMail?

I’m not sure if this is the right way to enhance email. Isn’t it that we hide the production process on purpose. Or are we in the midst of changing our habits and cultures of production. Is it all about disclosure?

Is email the way we would go to disclose the process of producing or do we have other tools that help us to disclose.

After all: I could manipulate the context-messages that are conveyed EmoteMail.
(Win and Mac Client available)

EmoteMail project: email with facial expression

EmoteMail project is an email client that conveys context and tone made by Jussi Angesleva & Carson Reynolds (Media Lab Europe & MIT Media Lab). You can have more information and download it there.

“EmoteMail is an email client that is augmented to convey aspects of the writing context to the recipient. The client captures facial expressions and typing speed and introduces them as design elements. These contextual cues provide extra information that can help the recipient decode the tone of the mail. Moreover, the contextual information is gathered and automatically embedded as the sender composes the email, allowing an additional channel of expression.
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[...] If the sender changes their facial expression (perhaps as part of an emotionally meaningful communication) then the small camera grab beside each paragraph reflects this. By capturing a snapshot of the face of the writer with every paragraph, the system attempts to display the fluctuation of the emotions throughout the message, rather than attempting to summarize the whole message as a certain mood (…).”

You will find also a complete article about EmoteMail in .pdf there.

(Via It’s 6:19. Do You Know Where You Are).

[Smart Mobs]