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Image 1: If you were using email 20 years ago, it probably would have looked something like this.Image 2: Today, it might look more like this. There have been some improvements around the edges but it’s still pretty much an ordered list, usually in chronological order with very little facility for identifying or prioritizing action. And what’s worse you probably don’t have 28 messages in your inbox, you may have 280, or 2,800.

So we took the chore of doing email and built It into a game

There are a few examples of email ‘games’ but they only try to solve the email management by adding a point scoring, time trial or bragging element.These games are email management, not true game by McGonagal’s definition

The other attempt to make something more interesting out of email is using data visualization to help manage emailProblem with previous email gamesMcGonagal: Gamification trends focus on awarding game-like points and badges for completing real-world tasks"Instead of thinking about the things we can do to make something look like a game, what can we do to make something feel like a game?“Four Traits: Positive Emotion, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment "As we are trying to make the real world more gameful, any of our organizational goals need to be achieved by empowering the players to get more of what they really want from life."

Our fist step was to use multi-variate data visualization to better represent the email in the inbox.

Our game: First we have multiple layers of data visualization to both organize and help strategize how to attack your emailFalling objects color coded and clustered along x-axis based on topic. Color hue indicates age of message (darker is more recent).Special people – people that you email with frequently get their own special shape.Size of object indicates weighted value of the email (heavier weight – part of an ongoing thread, indication in text of email that a response is required, Size of the buildings below indicate how many messages in each thread.

Cloud layer represents backlog of old messages. As messages fade in color they eventually fade into the cloud.

Mo' Bettah Email

Lynne Watanabe

Mo' Bettah Email