Autobotography – LiwenC

Personal Word Cloud

Summary/ Abstract

• This project’s intent is to create a reflection of the user’s digital presence.

Background

• People are communicating with others more and more through their phones using text based apps. Whether its with friends, or people that you have just met. The main idea of this project is to let people see interesting visual representation of a very integral part of how you interact with others on a daily basis.
• This project will gather informations on the user, based on their social media usage, and the quick type feature that is already being used by everyone when they type on their phones, and it will use that predictive feature to learn the words that the users use to generate these word clouds.
• The main interface of this project will be app based, so that users can access it quickly.

Visuals

• There will be many ways for users to generate a visual in this project, as with all other word cloud generators with algorithms that can generate different types of shapes for your cloud.

-(This is a chart of the most used words in the past 10 years.)

-(These are the word clouds that’s generated based on these informations.)

-(Using different algorithms, and interesting ways to make these clouds more personalized by gathering information from the quick type system and social media platforms.)

– (This is mock up of what the app will look like, using data that I have gathered from a someone’s social media profile, and you can easily guess who it is based on the information that is being presented. )

• Based on the informations gathered by the app, users can generate different word clouds that will reflect their presence in the digital space.
• They will have the option to change the appearance of these clouds, and have the ability to share them to the world.

Explanation

• The word cloud will let the users know more about themselves from an outside point of view, a pinpointed representation of you that others see based on how you interact with others digitally.
• 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.

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