September 8, 2007 Facemail
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/facemail/facemail.pdf
Facemail: Showing Faces of Recipients to Prevent Misdirected Email
E Lieberman and R Miller, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab rcm@csail.mit.edu
Emails have many potential problems. For example, people with the same names in a large company getting other people's mail,'reply' vs. 'reply to all' mistakes, and human error.
To rectify these situations, email is becoming technologically sophisticated by
including pictures of the recipient's face to match the email address before delivery. Problems arise with the size of the photo. Either the faces are too small to be recognized or too large to store.
Some of the requirements for Facemail are
1) A Firefox browser
2) IMP webmail system that is extensible to others
3) A database holds email and faces at the user's web browser (not the server),
populated from data in Google Images and Facebook.
4) Needs to be unpacked
5) Since there will be much data, new standards and controls for privacy must
be created.
This paper suggests there might be several thousands of recipients in an email so new structures and evaluation techniques of already existing web services will be necessary.
Apple Mail uses auto-complete. And, @apple.com addresses are highlighted with a specific color to show the email is a known good address.
X-Face is supported by many Unix mail clients, and by plugin extensions on
other mail clients, such as Thunderbird’s MessageFaces. X-Face has recent extensions
that support high-resolution color images.
Faces on the social desktop, ContactMap, can be used for sending email or instant messages.
Empathy Buddy augments an email with Chernov faces displaying emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and surprise. Note: Chernov faces were used in Multivariate Statistics prior to the invention of computers. Each feature on the face could be defined as an attribute. Analysis was completed by grouping like attributes together.
Passfaces uses faces for authentication, in which the user’s password is represented as a sequence of faces. This is good for humans; we are very good at recognizing faces (as opposed to other kinds of symbols or images).
Evelyn
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