May 3-7, 2005
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| CellMailGraph | ||
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| Author(s): | Laura Garcia-Barrio | |
| Instructor: | Wilson, Kathleen Bull, Stephen O'Sullivan, Dan Crowley, Dennis |
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| Class: | Final Project Seminar Cellphonia Networked Expression Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices |
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| URL: | http://onthespot.info/cellmailgraph | |
| Keywords: | cell phones, e-mail, social networks, software, personal assistant | |
| Graphical map of our mailbox that acts as an alert for the senders and topics we care about and that runs on Java enabled portable devices. CellMailGraph acts as an ambient data display anticipating what kind of emails we will find in our inbox. | ||
| A colorful composition of simple shapes will represent on the cell phone or PDA screen information coming from our mailbox. Different colors and sizes will represent people we have chosen to track, the number of e-mails they sent to us and the use of specific keywords. | ||
| Personal Statement: | As a thesis project I want to explore alternative ways to visualize information and mobile devices as a platform for personal and social applications.
I will come up with a way to represent textual information with graphics and make it meaningful and personal. | |
| Context: | Project based on my interests in cell phones as a platform for personal and social applications, finding alternative ways to represent information and social networks. | |
| Audience: | Users of cellphones and e-mail. | |
| User Scenario: | A cell phone owner wants to know if someone in particular emailed him/her recently. He/She starts the application, enters in a database the list of users to be tracked (name and e-mail address), assigns a color to each person and decides whether or not there are any keywords that he wants to monitor, then selects the option to build a map. This action will display on a cell phone display a graphical representation of the state of our mailbox according to the selected criteria.
The user will know quickly this way if he/she needs to find a computer to read the mails that he/she awaits. | |
| Methodology: | The application will be written in J2ME, and it will communicate with a database and the mail server through Perl and MySQL. | |