Visualizing Digital Communication

Immersion & OpenTeams

Immersion: Beneath the surface

The Power of Metadata: Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov at TEDxCambridge 2013

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The Power of Metadata: Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov at TEDxCambridge 2013

IMMERSION (2013)

The current interface of emails is designed around time, and messages, pushing people to focus on what is more recent rather than important. Immersion is a design experiment that centers the email interface on people and the networks that people form.

Immersion was developed by Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish as part of their requirement for a Masters in Media, Arts, and Sciences.

OPENTEAMS (2018)

OpenTeams is an open source platform to visualize team data. It is designed for email metadata, and also, includes validated surveys regarding personality (big five) and morals (moral foundation).

OpenTeams was created at the MIT Media Lab by Jingxian Zhang, with the support of Diana Orghian and Xiaojiao Chen.

Resources

Jingxian Zhang thesis on OpenTeams (link)
Daniel Smilkov’s thesis on Immersion (link)
Deepak Jagdish’s thesis on Immersion (link)
Immersion Open Source repository (github)
OpenTeams Open Source repository (github)

Press Appearances

NPR, Time, Mashable, Phys.org, Press Citron, Generation-nt, The Conversation, El Diario, Boston Globe, Wired, ACLU(1), ACLU(2).