LineHive: Hyperlink Storytelling
As we browse news stories, we make mental connections between pages. 'Hyperlink storytelling' is putting those links together to create mini-stories. Our algorithms automatically create timelines to make your mini-story a mini-beauty. We create a visual timeline to assist in understanding and sensemaking of news story development. Browse the connections others make of the same news stories.
http://linehive.com

Miles: Mobility for Improving Life and the Environment at Stanford)
The Miles project aims to reduce sedentary behavior and increase physical activity via a mobile phone health intervention software. Our research asks questions on how to influence bad behaviors through smart phone notifications and how to create visualizations to increase cognition of bad behaviors. We are studying how social & emotional cues affect health habit change.
http://sites.google.com/site/stanfordmiles/

Linkia: Cross Culture Design
In a research collaboration with Nokia Palo Alto, we use ethnographic methods to understand long distance communication using technology between loved ones and families in both the United States and China. We seek an understanding of the value of this communication and how it shapes family identity - in order to prototype new ways to improve long distance connection. Our research collaboration includes students from Peking University and Chinese Academy of Fine Arts and to work concurrently in China and the United States for understanding Cross Culture Design.