Members: Mark Bilandzic
Members: Patrick Schmitz
Pictures with Notes by Raymond Yee
Pictures with Notes by Patrick Schmitz
Members: Kelly Bryant
Have you ever met someone and thought "this person is so familiar, where have I seen him before"? Imagine that you could look at a history of their life and your life to determine if you have ever been in the same place at the same time. This concept of visualizing the daily travel of people is the inspiration for I Walk the Line. I Walk the Line utitlizes the Google maps API to create an interface where a person can create a line drawing that represents their daily travel whether by foot, air, car or other mode. The blog of lines enables a person to detect patterns in one's daily life or determine if their lines intersect with the lines of others. For example: "During the week I seem to travel the same short path but on the weekends I go in the opposite direction." Or "Jimmy looks so familiar because our lines crossed at a party in Texas back in 2003."
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Members: Rich Meyer and Adrienne Hilgert
Palmer High School Reunion is a website that offers a visual clearinghouse of information for the upcoming reunion event. This is a one-stop-shopping site: reunion participants can stay abreast of what daily activities are happening, classmates who will be attending, directions to events, and hotels nearby. It also has a map page that shows markers of the home city and zip where participants currently live.
The website also has a form that asks participants to register for the events they plan to attend, as well as a questionnaire form that asks participants to supply information about their current lives, families and past high school memories. The questionnaire form can be submitted immediately online, and the information is then pulled from a database for dynamically updating other web pages in the Palmer Reunion site, such as the 20th reunion directory.
Members: Lilia Manguy
The PhotoArcs demo is a remix of the Flickr API, the drag-and-drop utility from the Yahoo! UI Library, and JavaScript from Frequecy Decoder's "Little Yellow Stickies". The interface was coded in PHP. It retrieves photos by contact name or tag from Flickr. The thumbnails are dragged and dropped onto targetable spaces on the arc. The user can then insert a narrative by creating a text box, placing it behind some photos, resizing it to describe any number to photos, and writing part of the story.
Members: Scott Fisher
AlienYarn remixes selected Flickr photos with creative story text in a separate database and interface. People are encouraged to submit photos or story text to create fictional, diverse and creative yarns.
Though AlienYarn has some similarities to other projects such as PhotoArcs, the emphasis is on visual or textual creativity and a game-like comparison of diverse work that people might come up with for a similar set of inputs. It allows comparison, contrasting and riffing on creative ideas.
The interface was created using PHP, mySQL with phpFlickr libraries. The current version is functional but basic. Future versions might include interactive Flickr photo searching, photo selection and ordering; contact and friend awareness for photo and yarn display; rating and feedback functions; searching, sorting and filtering; enhanced entry and display options.
Members: Carrie Burgener
Ph-lashr
Thinkr is a "Ph-lashr", meaning, was made using a PHP back-end that connects to the Flickr api using PhpFlickr,
the PHP passes the necessary information to Flash, that handles all of the game logic and visual treatment.
The Future
Thinkr represents a work in progress piece. Originally the game was concived to be a multi-player live environment game that would engage people to interact with eachother using simple text messages. The technology for the final version will include a PHP service collecting text messages, that communicates with the game changing the input device from a laptop computer to a handheld device, and the competitor from the computer to the people around you in the environment.
Final Write-up: https://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/twiki/pub/Infomixs06/FinalProjects/Thinkr.pdf
Working Demo: http://a.parsons.edu/~carrie/MixingRemixing/Experiments/version6
Members: Brad Herman and Gilbert Hernandez
One of Flickr's greatest assests is the great number of photos posted to the network. In addition, the wide variety of photo subject and style help make it a vibrant one. However, such volume and diversity can be overwhelming to members trying to find their way through the photos. The tagging system, interestingness, group, and contact features are good tools, but are ultimately inadequate for introducing members to the photos and people that they would want to see but will probably miss in the sea of information. The Flickr Neighbrhood is another tool aimed at helping make that connection between a member and the photos and people on Flickr that he or she would likely want to know about. It recommends other members to look at, based on their favorites and the tags that they use. You might just find a kindred spirit.
The Flickr Neighbrhood can be visualized in two ways. The first is a stand-alone website that allows a member to submit his or her username and returns a list of eight Neighbrs who have similar Flickr affinities. The Flickr Neighbrhood is also integrated into a Greasemonkey script to display a list of four top Neighbrs on the member's Flickr homepage.
Dedicated website interface: http://harbinger.sims.berkeley.edu/~gilby/neighbrhood.php
Greasemonkey script to integrate with Flickr.com: http://harbinger.sims.berkeley.edu/~gilby/FlickrNeighbrhood.user.js
Members: Patti Bao