Autobotography Intent – LiwenC

Personalized Word Cloud

• People are communicating with others more and more through their phones using text based apps. Whether its with old friends, or people that you have just met. The main idea of this project is to let people see interesting visual representation of an very integral part of how you interact with others on a daily basis.
• You can access this project through an downloaded app that will use data from the already existing word prediction system that’s  implemented in your phones, whether its an iPhone, or an Android. The app will use that prediction system to find out what words are being used on a daily basis, and it will generate a word cloud based on those words.
• The word cloud will let the users know more about themselves from an outside point of view, a pinpointed representation you that others see based on the words that you use. It will be especially more interesting,  if it incorporates emojis that people are using more and more everyday, as those characters are more emotion based and will draw out the character that you are presenting to other people.
• Interaction is an important part of the user experience, so a main part of this app is for you to put your word cloud out there for others to see.
• An important part of generating a word cloud is that there are different ways for the clouds to be generated.  This app will use different user input algorithms that can change the shapes and ways that the word cloud will be generated, it will be interesting to see the many ways that the word clouds can be manipulated also.

Budget

• Design – with the starting fee of $20 per month for Adobe Clouds.
  • Hourly wages of $30  –  $100+ for professional designers, depending on experience.
• Coding – since this project can take a variable amount of time, it would be easier to pay on a hourly wage to the programmers, depending on how long they work on the project.
  • Hourly wages of $ 50 – $300 + for programmers, depending on experience.