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

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

application

application

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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

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

application

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

Resources of a human

Human Operating System

Human Operating System

Resources of a human

Resources of a human

Resources of a human

Resources of a human

application

Presentation interface

Reception interface

user data

relevanceengine

Human OS

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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

delivery channels

user (consumer)

data publishers

?

YQL

middlemen

user (producer)

User needs

• DiscoveryFind without search

• FilteringSolving information overload

• MemoryPersonal 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

• Music

• Video

• Books

• People

• 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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