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Visualizing Relationships and Communication Media |
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A project to document my interactions and relationships across media (online and offline.) A visualization of my email and facebook messages over one week. |
March 2013 |
information-design |
Technology is often criticized for making people less engaged with one another. And to some degree that accusation is accurate; I've been out to dinner with people constantly checking their phones or text messages. Still, technology also gives people the power to connect with one another, and in my own life, I know many of my in-person interactions are enabled or influenced by ones that happen online beforehand. So, for a project to document one week of my life, I wanted to visualize the flow of my interactions with my friends across media: texts, emails, Facebook messages, and in-person encounters.
For this project, I developed a very basic Rails application to log my offline interactions, and integrated a few APIs with the Raphael.js library to create a vector-based visualization, which I then tweaked in Adobe Illustrator.