Continuting with the theme of GUI there is a growing ‘web 2.0′ trend for implementing different ways of displaying and exploring data. There are a few visually exciting and user friendly examples that have been implemented well. Such as musicovery which allows the user to select how they feel and as a result the system selected and displays a selection of appropriate artists in an ‘tree’. The user can visually explore and navigate into other artists related to the currently selected track.
This is not just limited to the desktop enviroment Musicovery has its own Mobile application. Although the user does require a specific smartphone and OS. See the video here…
musicovery on mobile
Uploaded by musicovery
Relating back to my previous blog post ‘The past, present and future of HCI & Mobile devices…” the mobile Musicovery application has the discussed ability to make ‘informed’ and is (to a point) ‘Contextually aware’ of the user. And the users current needs/mood. A trend that will only become more common in the future.
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