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dc.contributor.authorAssogba, Yannick M.
dc.contributor.authorDonath, Judith
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-04T14:39:16Z
dc.date.available2010-10-04T14:39:16Z
dc.date.issued2009-01
dc.date.submitted2008-01
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7695-3450-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58849
dc.description.abstractThis paper introduces Mycrocosm, a micro-blogging site in which users communicate via statistical graphics, rather than the usual short text statements. Users of Mycrocosm can record everyday "personal statistics" and share this information in the form of simple graphs and charts. People have used it to track how they got to work and how long it took, what color clothes they wore, how often they checked their Facebook updates, how often a colleague shows up late, and many other trends and events. Mycrocosm raises awareness of the strong yet subtle effect a medium has upon the messages it conveys. Most computer based communication interfaces are text based, so while the conduit is computational, the medium is not far different from a typewriter. Mycrocosm, by using easily updated statistical graphs, creates an easy to use and understand medium that nevertheless is quite different from other forms of communication, both direct and computer mediated.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineersen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.836en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceIEEEen_US
dc.titleMycrocosm: Visual microbloggingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationAssogba, Yannick, and Judith Donath. (2009). "Mycrocosm: Visual Microblogging." Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009 (Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE): 1-10. © 2009 IEEE.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratoryen_US
dc.contributor.approverAssogba, Yannick M.
dc.contributor.mitauthorAssogba, Yannick M.
dc.contributor.mitauthorDonath, Judith
dc.relation.journalProceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsAssogba, Yannick; Donath, Judith
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US
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