e-Tely: electronic stamps for augmenting emails

  • Authors:
  • Vishesh Kumar;Harshit Agrawal;Rishika Jain;Arka Bani Maini;Prabhat Kumar

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India;Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India;Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India;Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India;Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In our pursuit to restore delight in email, and making it more human, we recalled a common hobby of ours that was being lost in abandoning snail mail, for the technologically advanced e-mail. This paper explores a concept that, in a playful manner symbolized by stamps, reignites the elements of glee that used to belong to handling traditional letters; while adding valuable metadata from the sender's end for easier gauging of relevance and importance for the receiver, and also adds a dimension of preparedness for future imagined scenarios of email usage.