Online social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook encourage people to share their status in real time. Although these self-reported messages are unstructured and ‘noisy’, they are an extremely direct window into the lives of millions of users. Twitter as online word of mouth can provide opinions about products, services, or systems. We implemented [...]
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Virtual Eco-System
‘VisCoral’ represents the ecosystem changes in the Pacific Ocean. Our system allows users to explore the temporal changes of environmental data such as temperature, CO2 level, sea level and precipitation and their impact on the health of coral reefs and neighbor marine species such as coral fish. VisCoral is composed of multi-view interactive visualization, which [...]
Ambient Display for Sustainability
People are ready to adapt to a more eco-friendly lifestyle when they are aware of the possible problems of their lifestyle. Designing for persuasion works when feedback to a user increases awareness without intruding upon a primary task.
We designed two Mac OS X Widgets named “Coralog” and “Timelog.” They detect the duration of a user’s [...]

