1. Interfaces of Attention Yury Lifshits (Yahoo! Research) Twitter: @yurylifshits

2. Operating System Computer OS Phone OS In-car OS Home OS –… Human OS Picture source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_system_placement.svghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_system_placement.svg

3. Nokia Connected Home: http://www.nokia.com/technology/upcoming-innovations/connected-home

4. Human OS Resources of a human Human Operating System application

5. Human OS from The Matrix

6. Human resources Time (calendar) Location Physical power Money Thinking power Expertise, knowledge (QA) Current state, mood Decision making Attention

7. 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

8. Resources of a human application

9. Presentation interface Reception interface user data relevance engine Human OS application

10. Today Overview of information distribution Attention interfaces Presentation interface Reception interface Prototypes Brainstorm

11. Information Distribution

12. 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

13. Trend: Growth of Data Photos Events Video, Internet TV Fashion Shopping Art, architecture, design Psychology Music

14. delivery channels user (consumer) data publishers ? YQL middlemen user (producer)

15. User needs Discovery Find without search Filtering Solving information overload Memory Personal information management

16. Presentation Interfaces

17. Stream Subscriptions Shared It ’ s ok to miss an entry Focus on entertainment Actions: connect, put to queue

18. Tabs / Folders

19. Messages, Updates, Alerts

20. 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

22. 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

24. Queue Wishlist: restaurants, books, travel ideas, movies Content: video, music artists, blogs, slides Things to learn Games Keywords for research

25. Sharing Events Music Video Books People Places

26. Random Walk See also Similar artists Entities in this story

27. Reception Interfaces

28. Reception Constraints Size Structure, namespaces Rate Reputation Keyword matching

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30. Prototypes Photo reader http://semabox.com Connector http://semabox.com/connector Newsboard http://semabox.com/newsboard

31. Brainstorm 1.What kind of information do you want to consume? 2.What is the ideal presentation interface?

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