January 27, 2006
Finger Ring, "Social Polling"
12:13 PM
telephony
+ wearable
Finger Ring
is a system in which a cell phone decides whether to ring by accepting votes
from the others in a conversation with the called party. When a call comes in,
your phone first determines who you're discussing with by using a decentralized network
of autonomous body-worn sensor nodes. It then vibrates all participants'
wireless finger rings. Although the alerted people do not know if it is their
own phones that are about to interrupt, each of them has the possibility to veto
the call anonymously by touching his/her finger ring. If no one vetoes, your
phone rings.
This system of "social polling" shifts the burden of deciding whether to
interrupt away from the phone and towards the humans who are actually involved
in a conversation.
A work by Stefan Marti, who
also developed the amusing Cellular
Squirrel (via).
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