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"laptop-Sign"

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problems keep us from work. A colleague stormed into the office and will only provide "short" a question. Another telling detail than we like it, from his weekend getaway. The human factor, while still the number one distraction, but the variety of communication channels makes our work even more vulnerable. Our phone rings while we talk with a customer. An e-mail with the "high" priority lands in our inbox, even though we the 20 other mail have not even read. Whenever information ends up on our virtual desktop, we feel obliged to be concerned about us, whether we're doing something else important.

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time management experts recommend "Silent Hours" to avoid failure and concentrate on working on a task. [1] In the office we just make the door to our mobile office - the laptop - but it is always welcome. If we are to be undisturbed in a hotel room like, we hang the sign "Do not disturb!" to the doorknob. This door tag I transfer to the digital world. The laptop
sign off with a handle all communication channels. Depends the words "Do not Disturb" on the outside of the laptop, we can not be reached, either by e-mail, phone or chat. Do we want to again communicate with other people, we want to consciously back to reception, where we sign the laptop to the other side with the inscription "Please Come in!" Turn . The laptop trailer signals both in the real environment and in the virtual environment either call early stem or a need for rest.

realization
The "laptop-Sign" is placed over the built-in laptop camera. CamCapture [2] takes at short intervals on a picture with the built-in laptop camera. ImageMagick [3] reduces the image to a size of 1x1 pixels and defines the color values. The page "Do Not Disturb!" covers the camera, thus creating a completely black image. Using a system application, a network environment is selected in which all communication channels are turned off.
The programming took kindly Jakob Lehr.

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"laptop-Sign" , front and rear, Hesa, engraved and painted
© Ivy Kunze


"laptop-Sign" in application © Ivy Kunze, digital print, 51 x 34cm



tone! documentary "laptop-Sign", © Ivy Kunze, Berlin

[1] Seiwert, L. (2006)
[2] CamCapture - program that monitors Web Cameras and allows images the camera to store.
[3] ImageMagick ® - Software for editing bitmap images.