Mycrocosm: Visual microblogging
This paper introduces Mycrocosm, a micro-blogging site in which users communicate via statistical graphics, rather than the usual short text statements. Users of Mycrocosm can record everyday "personal statistics" and share this information in the form of simple graphs and charts. People h...
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| author | Assogba, Yannick M. Donath, Judith |
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| description | This paper introduces Mycrocosm, a micro-blogging site in which users communicate via statistical graphics, rather than the usual short text statements. Users of Mycrocosm can record everyday "personal statistics" and share this information in the form of simple graphs and charts. People have used it to track how they got to work and how long it took, what color clothes they wore, how often they checked their Facebook updates, how often a colleague shows up late, and many other trends and events. Mycrocosm raises awareness of the strong yet subtle effect a medium has upon the messages it conveys. Most computer based communication interfaces are text based, so while the conduit is computational, the medium is not far different from a typewriter. Mycrocosm, by using easily updated statistical graphs, creates an easy to use and understand medium that nevertheless is quite different from other forms of communication, both direct and computer mediated. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/588492022-09-30T01:42:29Z Mycrocosm: Visual microblogging Assogba, Yannick M. Donath, Judith Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Assogba, Yannick M. Assogba, Yannick M. Donath, Judith This paper introduces Mycrocosm, a micro-blogging site in which users communicate via statistical graphics, rather than the usual short text statements. Users of Mycrocosm can record everyday "personal statistics" and share this information in the form of simple graphs and charts. People have used it to track how they got to work and how long it took, what color clothes they wore, how often they checked their Facebook updates, how often a colleague shows up late, and many other trends and events. Mycrocosm raises awareness of the strong yet subtle effect a medium has upon the messages it conveys. Most computer based communication interfaces are text based, so while the conduit is computational, the medium is not far different from a typewriter. Mycrocosm, by using easily updated statistical graphs, creates an easy to use and understand medium that nevertheless is quite different from other forms of communication, both direct and computer mediated. 2010-10-04T14:39:16Z 2010-10-04T14:39:16Z 2009-01 2008-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 978-0-7695-3450-3 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58849 Assogba, Yannick, and Judith Donath. (2009). "Mycrocosm: Visual Microblogging." Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009 (Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE): 1-10. © 2009 IEEE. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.836 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
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