Progress on Digital Self

I selected 10 people as my research objects. They are in different life stages and with different occupations. I traced their Internet browsing history to find some patterns. This is the most recent visualization I created. When you mouse over a persona, his/her browsing history will be visualized in flowing text clouds format. I am also thinking of using rich media, such like sounds or video to support my idea.

I plan to do this piece in processing, which allows me to manipulate the data in a more flexible way.

The pixel people are inspired by John Maeda's piece human encounter. The dotted colorful text coulds are inspired by Wefeelfine.

For now to serve the purpose of comparison of digital self and physical self, I plan to list the tags related to the website they visit, then ask the physical person to rank it, by comparing the order of the two sets of data, the audience will easily find the difference between the digital self and physical self.

Special thanks to Stacie for giving me the idea of "comparing tags"!

Movie Threads Storyboard

Here is a quick story board of what I am trying to hammer out in flash.  There are three main components to the interactive site: filtering sidebar, sorting, thread display window

Filtering sidebar: This will show the possible options from which to choose.  Grouped by: Sales, MPAA ratings, Viewer ratings, and Genre.  Depending on the selection option that data will be shown to the user.

Sorting: This will allow a user to organize the data in the most sensible way.  Either by: Sales, MPAA ratings, Viewer ratings, and Genre.  The sort will occur on the item selected and by selecting the same option again the order will be reversed.

Thread display window:  This will display the individual threads.  Each colored to indicate the genre group to which it belongs.  The thread fragmentation will indicate the MPAA rating (i.e. the more fragmented a thread the higher the MPAA rating).  

In the story board I show the instance which a user will select the sales data to view and then sort by the MPAA rating.  You can get the gist here.  Refer to my previous posts to the other viewable data.