February 26, 2005

What if we designed technologies...

...to persuade us NOT to use them sometimes?

''It's in human nature to wonder whether you've got new mail,'' said Alon Halevy... Dr. Halevy and others talk about making e-mail intelligent so that it knows when to interrupt the user.

''Suppose you trusted your e-mail system enough that you're alerted to an e-mail only if it's really pertinent right now,'' Dr. Halevy said.

Full story here: You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention (New York Times)

Personally, I've been playing around with a few ideas for helping people manage their email more efficiently.

Posted by Ramit Sethi at February 26, 2005 07:05 AM | TrackBack
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