Project Number
- 267
Title
- LaserWho
Description
- Interactive gesture-based visualization of affinity and affiliations within a community of users.
Contact
- Judith Donath
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street, E15-449
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street, E15-449
- judith@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "In this interactive, gesture-based visualization of the affiliations within a community, users place anchors, each representing a different topic relevant to that community, on the screen. The names of people who are particularly drawn to a topic flow towards the associated anchor. The resulting animation reveals the shared interests and affiliations that comprise the structure of the community."
- In virtual worlds, common social patterns of grouping are not as easily seen as they are in the everyday world. "LaserWho not only visualizes these social patterns, but does so in a way that recreates (though in a very different way) the fascination of people watching in real life." It is a tool for interaction with and visualization of conceptual data structures.
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 305 - community / society
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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