Interfaces of Attention Yury Lifshits Yahoo Research Twitter

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

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Human OS application Human Operating System Resources of a human

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 application Human Operating System Resources of a human Human Operating System Resources of a human

application Human Operating System Resources of a human

application Reception interface user data relevance engine Presentation interface Human OS

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

user (producer) data publishers middlemen YQL ? delivery channels user (consumer)

User needs • Discovery Find without search • Filtering Solving information overload • Memory Personal 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 • Books • Music • People • Video • Places

Random Walk • See also • Similar artists • Entities in this story

Reception Interfaces

Reception Constraints • Size • Structure, namespaces • Rate • Reputation • Keyword matching

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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?

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