1. MicroThoughts bask@okcoder.com Richard Bailey Kim Spreen G Stepanov

2. A story…

3. Motivation During the course of a $timeperiod you have lots of interesting and novel ideas If you don’t write these down there is a good chance you’ll forget them In many situations it may be inconvenient to take out your notebook and pen May wish to share notes with others in the conversation

4. Our Solution Mobile application to record notes (or microthoughts) Automatically tag with time and location Upload to a server when connection is available Optionally share with nearby MicroThoughts users, or send to others

5. Other Capabilities Intuitive interfaces and visualizations for browsing / searching Speech-to-text to extract tags ThoughtCasts Aural Graffiti Geocoding Many more…

6. Challenges Technical –Android SDK is poorly documented –The Android emulator is buggy –Usability –No physical device yet Legal –There may be issues with recording conversations in a public setting

7. Architecture

8. Milestones Minimum Goal Mobile prototype working on an emulated handset device Pre-recorded audio to act as input Browsing via mobile device Manual tagging of notes Expected Goal Coherent, extensible, and maintainable design Live audio as input GPS simulation for multiple users Speech to text analysis to auto-tag notes Advanced visualization tool(s) Reach Goal Web driven interface for thought navigation Multi-party ThoughtCast™ aggregation Prototype running on a physical handset / generalization beyond Android Location tracking via WhereAmI / GPS Desktop web application with rich visualizations

9. Summary MicroThoughts… combines time and location data to aid recall will provide intuitive interfaces for navigating spatial and temporal memories facilitate idea sharing