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Tang, A., Pattison, E. and Greenberg, S. (2005)
DartMail: Digital Information Transfer through Physical Surrogates. In Video Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work – ECSCW’05. (Paris),, September 18-22. Video and two page paper, duration 4:39.
Also as: Report Video was available in 2003 as GroupLab Video Report.
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Abstract.
This video illustrates DartMail, a humorous account of how electronic ‘handles’ can be quickly created, attached to a physical medium, and exchanged between people. Its primary interface is a physical, RFID-tagged rubber dart. Exchange is accomplished in three rapid steps: Associating the RFID dart with digital data; Information transfer by having a person hunt down his or her colleague and shoot the dart at them, and Information retrieval where the receiver simply passes the dart over another RFID reader to open the associated information in the appropriate application. Serious applications of these tongue in cheek ideas are also shown.