Automated awareness and visualization of online presence
Chamin Morikawa, Kiyoharu Aizawa · 2012
We propose a novel framework for facilitating awareness of people's contactability in a networked environment. Image analysis on periodically captured photo bursts estimates a user's presence and activity levels. A graphical mapping combines these two parameters to represent how contactable the user is. A Visualization conveys the contactability of multiple users to their contacts on the network. An interaction strategy combines the above with the ability to actively seek for awareness of contactability. We describe the current status of implementing this framework, and report intermediate results.