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Information and Interface Design
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vijaya.ramanujam@gmail.com |
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Media Metadata Visualization
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Guide Dr Bibhudutta Baral |
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Sponsonr HP Labs, Bengaluru
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Personal media devices such as digital camera have become commonplace nowadays. Users can easily take hundreds of photos leading to ever-growing volume of personal media collections. Therefore, there is a need for organizing media in a meaningful way. This was the larger context within which my diploma project and deliverables were proposed. The existing photo-management applications offer basic thumbnail-based features for organizing, labeling, viewing and editing digital images. They are not sufficient for the users to find specific photographs quickly. Any kind of recall mechanism depends on manual annotation, mostly in the form of tags which add to the user burden and ultimately forgotten.
This implied that the structure of a photo-application be derived on the basis of how people remember, recollect and recall media objects for use. Focus needed to be shifted to how photo-viewing experience can be made more engaging by allowing people to explore their photos and revive memories. My design exploration focused on how this metadata could be visualized for browsing, searching and navigating media collections, along with appropriate interfaces and interactions. The application designed was though offline in nature and developed for viewing/sharing photos by people at home. But the application could also communicate online, to facilitate the current photo-sharing habits and ultimately pick up more metadata for refining system understanding. This in turn widens the scope of automated annotation that can be performed on the personal photo-collections. |
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