Dance, Dance, Dance Your Email Away
Microsoft Research has come up with a new way to read and organize your email — by dancing. StepMail allows you to read, delete and flag your email using a DDR-type pad. There is also StepPhoto which allows you to organize your photos using the pad. Microsoft cites the CDC study that 65% of U.S. adults over the age of 20 are either overweight or obese. From the StepUI page: Average heart rate increased 19% while using StepMail and 13% for StepPhoto.
There is a video of StepMail in use and a paper (pdf) describing its use and benefits. More information is available on the StepUI page.
Looks like fun to me – I’d give it a try!
I also posted about this here.
Posted: March 2nd, 2006 under technology, entertainment.
Comments: 2
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Comment from Nalod
Time: March 2, 2006, 11:00 am
Interesting idea…I don’t know how long I would enjoy doing this, but it would be fun to play around with. Also, she is cute 
–Joe
Trackback from planetOzh
Time: March 2, 2006, 5:10 pm
Lose Weight : Read Your Mail
HA ! This is too silly. Some folks with way too much spare time over at Microsoft are developping a way of managing your email with… a mouse and a keyboard ? Old school ! Too lazy ! With something like a Dance Dance Revolution pad. Yes.
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