Info Garden: A New Approach to Browse Personal Files Based on Metadata Tags

David Seagal
Spring 2010


Info Garden

Project Description

As personal data grows and becomes increasingly more difficult to manage, people are looking for new ways to browse files over traditional file hierarchies. Metadata tags have emerged as an alluring alternative, and have proven to be effective in many Web 2.0 services, such as Flickr and YouTube.

Info Garden is an attempt to encourage and facilitate the tagging of personal files by representing them with a garden motif. The purpose of Info Garden is twofold. One, to provide a visualization of a user's files based on their tags that is both useful and aestetically appealing. Two, to motivate and encourage users to tag untagged files through the program. Info Garden is developed using the Processing programming language.


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Written Report
Presentations (.odp): Progress Report, Final Presentation
Source Code
README
Video Demonstration