ZoneTag:Putting Your Photos in
ContextMor NaamanYahoo! Research Berkeley
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ZoneTag?
How would we:Create/store?Find?Share?Discover?
“Everything in the world exists to end up in a photograph” -- Susan Sontag
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• Programmable• Context-aware• Network-connected• Quality… it’ll be good enough
Why Cameraphones?
• Numbers, numbers…– 500,000,000
(Source: Future Image Inc.)
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Current Mobile Experience
• Difficult to share (or even save!)
• Hard to find– No context– No semantic information
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ZoneTag Experience
• 2-click upload, smooth experience
• Photo uploaded with location and time metadata
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ZoneTag Experience
• Tagging made easy!– Tag/categorize/annotate your photos from the phone
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Where do Tags come from?
• You• Your contacts• Various databases• Customized Streams
Served in context!
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Suggested Tags
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I’m Too Lazy (you’re not alone)
• Tagging is the means, not the goal
• Benefits even if you never tagged a single image
(Bradley Horowitz, elatable.com)
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Where do locations come from?• Bluetooth GPS (when available)• User-contributed cell tower mapping
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Context predicts
• Tags• People• Sharing• Interest?
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What to do with all this context?
• ZoneTag browser demo• PhotoCompas demo
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Typed (Faceted) Browsing
• http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/photos
ZoneTag locations this week:
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Social Browsing
• My contacts at Berkeley, yesterday:
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ZoneTag Challenges
• Data– Computing likelihood of tags– Analyzing new datasets for new type of applications*
• Platform scale and design• UED, UED, UED• Inventing the future
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ZoneTag as a platform
• Everything we can do, you can do (better?)– Cell ID translation– Suggested Tags– More…
• Put ZT on your favorite platform!
• Coming soon
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Thank You
Download, sign up, get the full scoop:
http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com(Research prototype; currently supports Nokia Series 60 phones)
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