AMP: Assisted Metadata Propagation

Carrie Burgener, Ben Hill, Dave Hong

Jeff's Comments:
Great prototype! Looks like you are getting some very interesting first 
results in playing with various metadata types.

One initial nitpick: Use larger text and images in your slides. Very 
hard to read!

I agree with Morgan's comment about history mechanisms. People will want 
to remember where they been. Perhaps an undo/redo stack plus the option 
to bookmark settings would be sufficient. I also thought it might be 
useful to selectively "turn-off" sliders. That way you could eliminate 
their effect, but later turn them back on without having lost your 
position. On top of all that, I also agreed with the comment that 
filtering could be useful. All these features leave you with a bit of a 
UI design challenge, but one whose solution could be really beneficial 
to your visualization.

Another issue I noticed (and mentioned in class) is how photos get 
shoved into the gutters of the display. Repulsive forces along the edges 
could help, as could invisibly tethering all items to the center using 
weak springs. Come talk to me if you're interested in discussion options 
here.

I really like your ideas for grouping the data. Perhaps a clustering 
approach would help? The clustering could provide multiple levels of 
aggregation, and could be leveraged both to provide visual cues (e.g., 
colored blobs) as well as inform the layout more. Again, I'd be happy to 
chat if you want any additional pointers along these lines.

In the end, this is very cool, and I can see this being a very nice tool 
for annotating photos. Your tool is much more freeform and versatile 
than a lot of others I've seen, which could prove to be a win. I'd 
definitely be interested to see how some user testing would further 
inform your design!


Marti's comments:

Neat logo!

Very lively and alive.  Makes one want to interact with the system.  I
feel I want to be able to delete photos or downgrade them from view
(when there are many similar photos, for example).  May want to have a
more straightforward way to add tags.  

An interface like this could be really helpful for tagging, I agree;
people could drag and drop into existing groups after starting with an
initial group.  Will need to make copies in order to assign multiple
attributes.

Having a slider on location give a cool interactive experience.
However, combining in the other sliders may well prove to be
too confusing for users.

I could see adding an option that stops the jitter after a while,
since I think after a while it could get annoying.

Morgan suggested a history function; Jeff and I agree this is a good idea.

I also like Steve's suggestion of using sliders to filter out some
photos, that way you can expose more photos from the collection at a
time.

Maybe leave a colored visual trail behind the photos as they exchange position
Color behind grouping could be really nice.

You said this is cluttered beyond 100 photos, so filtering is very
important. 

Great job getting this far!