projects
Poyozo: Your Personal Information Explorer
Poyozo is an automatic, personal diary system to help reclaim and consolidate your ever-expanding digital life with simple visualizations that you can use every day.
The web, personal computers and instant ubiquitous digital communications have brought unprecedented constant demands on our attention. As a result, people do not spend as much time thinking, reflecting upon situations, decisions and activities as they used to. As a consequence, people feel less organized, and often lack the situational clarity to make informed decisions. Poyozo is designed to help make self-reflection an integral part of daily personal information management activity, and to provide facilities for fostering greater self-understanding through exploration of captured personal activity logs. The application visualizes such personal activity logs using many available “life-tracking” tools, and uses visual and textual PIM metaphors to convey this information in a familiar way that is personally relevant and meaningful.
· created in collaboration with Max Van Kleek
Atomate: Your Personal Information Engine
Atomate lets you easily create smart reminders and actions that can automatically do stuff based on where you are, what you are doing, or based on e-mails, tweets, text messages, and information about news and events you receive from anywhere on the Web.
Atomate is a next-generation personal information assistance engine that lets end-users delegate to it various simple context- and activity-reactive tasks and reminders. Atomate treats RSS/ATOM feeds from social networking and life-tracking sites as sensor streams, integrating information from such feeds into a simple unified RDF world model representing people, places and things and their timevarying states and activities. To make routine use of the system easy for non-programmers, Atomate provides a constrained-input natural language interface (CNLI) for behavior specification, and a direct-manipulation interface for inspecting and updating its world model.
Check out our short videos on how to use Atomate for setting up a reminder and adding a custom RSS feed
· created in collaboration with Max Van Kleek & David Karger at MIT CSAIL
Eyebrowse: Share and compare your web trails
Eyebrowse is a firefox plugin that lets _you_ decide (and change your mind) which web browsing trails you want to share to a public archive. Eyebrows aggregates this information with other sharers' to show sites' popularity and common navigation trails. Eyebrowse shows this data in the form of interesting and insightful visualizations that help you gain personal insights into your browsing history and its relation to other people's, as well as catching a glimpse of what Google knows about you
Currently, most web browsing data is collected by search engine companies (Google, Microsoft, Alexa…), which is not available for public domain research. Eyebrowse seeks to fill this gap by providing a public repository of web trails. By making this data available, we hope to support the creation of open public services that analyze and report major trends on the web, services that support personalization of the web through collaborative filtering and other crowd-sourcing techniques, and other as-yet unimagined services that require a mass of data about the world's interaction with the web.
Check out the eyebrowse eyebrowser or some real live profiles, which are accessible from any page via the plug-in.
Eyebrowse is an open source project hosted on Google Code implemented using Django, Javascript and HTML5. It was created in collaboration with Max Van Kleek & David Karger at MIT CSAIL
Polybody
Polybody is a participatory public installation: a digital tapestry of the virtual and real-world events in which it is situated. Visitors can "cut out" visual content from the web and collage it onto a public display wall. The Loom encourages collaboration among visitors, who may share a physical space or only a connection through the web. Participants' contributions will be deposited on top of one another and will accumulate over time, leaving an archaeological timeline or cyclogram of unfolding events. As the content travels to the bottom of the 'fresco', it reaches the printer which continuously transfers the composition onto a roll of paper. The printed scroll is perforated in sections and is draped across the floor so that visitors may take pieces of it home.
· in collaboration with Richard The, Jeff Warren, Agnes Chang at Design Ecology in the MIT Media Lab
