Transcript Human OS - Yury Lifshits

Interfaces of Attention
Yury Lifshits (Yahoo! Research)
Twitter: @yurylifshits
Operating System
• Computer OS
• Phone OS
• In-car OS
• Home OS
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• Human OS
Picture source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_system_placement.svg
Nokia Connected Home:
http://www.nokia.com/technology/upcoming-innovations/connected-home
Human OS
application
application
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
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Human Operating
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Resources of a
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Resources of a
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Resources of a
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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
Forthcoming events
HackDay Saint Petersburg
September 5-6
http://hackday.ru
My talk on two-sided markets
September 13, 15-35
http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~infclub
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?
Thanks!
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