I had a meeting with my project supervisor earlier, during which we discussed a few things about the Insight project. One of the things he reminded me about was that I have to give a presentation and demo of my project at the very end.
This will be interesting, especially for my project. The demo should be as impressive as possible, and should ideally have a big “wow!” factor. I’ve had a number of ideas in this direction, so I’d probably best put them here, although be warned: this may spoil the surprise for anyone who attends the presentation 
Anyway
- Music
- show iTunes/Winamp/Amarok/whatever and its integrated index
- explain that it might be useful to create a listing of music by genre (say)
- show how this can be done in the app
- then pose a use case: what if you decide that Genre X is very passé, but you don’t want to lose the music, just move it to DVD for example. What do you do?
- can’t do it via the app
- can do it via Insight…
- Pictures
- Prepare a number of pictures, pre-tagged (i.e. various trips) and then have a few uncategorised photos
- Tag them by dragging into relevant directories (e.g. Paris)
- Open a (specially-written) app to tag people — open a photo, draw a rectangle across it, type in a name, save the tag…
- At the same time, have a directory open that searches for photos of a certain person (i.e. type/photo person/Me)
- Tag photos with me and they appear in the directory instantly
- Use the app to search for a person; have it select pictures and highlight their face
- Perhaps import from Facebook, with tags?
- Arrange photos by time/date taken, time/date downloaded from camera, location, group of people, individual people,
- Files
- Store the file URL and referrer URL with a download, so you can find it again.
Many, many ideas. Which one will be the “killer app”?
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December 4th, 2007 | 