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I knew Gmail Motion was an April Fools gag --- that's what the link sending me there said, but... It's actually a good idea --- for certain users. In particula

by troymc 16y ago

I knew Gmail Motion was an April Fools gag --- that's what the link sending me there said, but... It's actually a good idea --- for certain users. In particular, there are many people who use sign language to communicate. For those who sign, what could be more natural than controlling Gmail via sign? And why stop at Gmail? Further reading: http://cad.ca/en/issues/telecommunications.asp http://cad.ca/en/issues/telecommunications.asp

ernestipark 16y ago
I'm taking a multimodal user interfaces course, and for our final project my partner and I discussed a gesture based interface for GMail on March 31. 10 hours later I saw GMail Motion. Granted, we weren't thinking quite the gesture set Google had in mind, but similar idea.