Thoughtless Acts

These are the thoughtless acts that I came up with:
1. Hairbands on a Lampshade
This one is unrelated to our project, but I am including it because it was the first thing I noticed when I got back home after the lecture on Thoughtless Acts last Monday. I do a lot of work in my room, on my bed and this means that I've ended up using my lampshade as a pseudo-holder for my hairbands (I tend to keep tying and untying my hair as I work). Now that I think about it, I think I began doing it because its as arms reach from where I sit while working thereby making it easily accessible. At school I often put my hairband on my wrist when I'm not using it. 
A good design intervention for something like this could be a sort of hook type device with the suction bottom that can be taken along with you. So wherever you sit, you place it at a convenient spot and you can keep putting and removing bands as you please.
2. Multipurpose Mug
This wasn't intentional because when I first got it, I fully intended to use it for coffee but I left it on my bookshelf and since then I've been using it as a holder for all kinds of stuff ranging from coins, to lip gloss etc. In the context of our project, it is likely that people could decide to use the glasses for different purposes, and may unintentionally leave them behind or switch them wtih someone elses which would then impact the matching and the entire process. The ideal way to address this issue would be the unique pattern-;ight combination that is generated when someone is given a glass. If we draw people's attentions to it at the start, they may be more likely to ensure they hold onto their glassses, and do not leave it behind as an artifact that is not a key participant in the process.
3. Leaning In
This thoughtless act has been talked about in multiple magazines and articles that talk of body language. If you are having a conversation with someone and you are interested in them, you tend to mirror their body language and lean towards them. It is an unconcsious act, but also a very good indicator of how people are feeling. We could use the proximity sensors in the glass to also detect this movement in posture and body language, and use it as an additional signal that people are enjoying each others company. We could also include this as a response to the ambience lighting / sounds to mirror this interest and add signals of dimmer lighting, slower music etc when this happens. This would be a good way of using the thoughtless act to act as a signal to our overall design.