Description

FconveyS (Form convey Spirit) skateboard edition ================================================ Motivation ------------------------ Twitter (& similar services) generates a feed of many hundreds posts a day, containing (or linking to) texts that could be of great value for users. However, text consumption is very slow in humans, resulting in information overflow: there is more information than can be consumed by most people. Visual consumption is very effective in humans: stand on the top floor of a sky-scraper, & you'll see thousands of buildings, cars, people & immediately perceive & understand everything you see. FconveyS (skateboard) is en experiment in utilising visual perception for overcoming information overflow. The visualization technique is based on a mapping between semantic concepts & arbitrary physical objects. Its underlying assumption is that the human brain can learn to associate the 2.