Interfaces of Attention
Yury Lifshits (Yahoo! Research)
Twitter: @yurylifshits
Operating System
• Computer OS
• Phone OS
• In-car OS
• Home OS
– …
– …
• Human OS
Picture source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_system_placement.svg
Nokia Connected Home:http://www.nokia.com/technology/upcoming-innovations/connected-home
Human OS
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
application
application
application
Human OS from The Matrix
Human resources
• Time (calendar)
• Location
• Physical power
• Money
• Thinking power
• Expertise, knowledge (QA)
• Current state, mood
• Decision making
• Attention
Human OS
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
application
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
Resources of a human
Human Operating System
Human Operating System
Resources of a human
Resources of a human
Resources of a human
Resources of a human
application
Presentation interface
Reception interface
user data
relevanceengine
Human OS
applicationapplication
application
Today
• Overview of information distribution
• Attention interfaces•Presentation interface
•Reception interface
• Prototypes
• Brainstorm
Information Distribution
Trend: Growth of Data
Business-generated data• Products, services, news, wishlists, contact data
Reality stream, sensors• Where what have happened
Expert knowledge• Glossary, issues, typical solutions, object databases, related
objects graph
Events• Sport, concerts, education, corporate, community, private
Market graph & signals• Like, interested, use, following, want to buy; votes and ratings
Trend: Growth of Data
• Photos
• Events
• Video, Internet TV
• Fashion
• Shopping
• Art, architecture, design
• Psychology
• Music
delivery channels
user (consumer)
data publishers
?
YQL
middlemen
user (producer)
User needs
• DiscoveryFind without search
• FilteringSolving information overload
• MemoryPersonal information management
Presentation Interfaces
Stream
• Subscriptions
• Shared
It’s ok to miss an entry
Focus on entertainment
Actions:
connect, put to queue
Tabs / Folders
Messages, Updates, Alerts
Now
• Stock, weather, sports scores, traffic, prices, showtimes
• Video news, podcast news, radio
• Last TV episodes
• Trending stuff
Only last value shown
Fit everything to one screen
Connections
• Memory/bookmarks: my books, places, music artists, celebrities, movies
• Resolve to details: status, reviews, current price, contact data
• Attention profile for better aggregation/recommendations
Queue
• Wishlist: restaurants, books, travel ideas, movies
• Content: video, music artists, blogs, slides
• Things to learn
• Games
• Keywords for research
Sharing
• Events
• Music
• Video
• Books
• People
• Places
Random Walk
• See also
• Similar artists
• Entities in this story
Reception Interfaces
Reception Constraints
• Size
• Structure, namespaces
• Rate
• Reputation
• Keyword matching
Forthcoming events
HackDay Saint Petersburg
September 5-6
http://hackday.ru
My talk on two-sided markets
September 13, 15-35
http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~infclub
Prototypes
Photo reader
http://semabox.com
Connector
http://semabox.com/connector
Newsboard
http://semabox.com/newsboard
Brainstorm
1. What kind of information do you want to consume?
2. What is the ideal presentation interface?
Thanks!
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