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Collage of a Social Me

Course: Indepedent Research
Time: Fall 2012
Members: Xuan Zhao, Sasha Naranjit
Role: Sketching, Wireframing
Skills/Tools: Balsamiq Mockups
Collage of a Social Me: A Personal Photo Collage of Your Social Memories
In the CHI 2013 paper "The Many Faces of Facebook: Experiencing Social Media as Performance, Exhibition, and Personal Archive", participants expressed that Facebook not only serves as an exhibition platform for their social presence but also a personal archive for their meaningful parts of life. Once their Facebook data expires from the public attention, they have the need to transit this data to personal archives. 
 
Inspired by the paper, the idea behind Collage of a Social Me is providing a tool with people who want to reminisce about their photos on different social websites to build their photo collage.  Users can use Collage of a Social Me to import photos and friends' comments of the photos from several social websites, then users can play with these photos and make these photos become a meaningful photo collage.
Sketching Interactions
Based on the concept, each team member brainstormed and sketched out the application layout and interactions.
Wireframing
Through the brainstorming discussion, we decided to keep the application simple and intuitive. I created wireframes to examine the details of what interaction control elements should be used and where elements should be positioned on each screen.
 
The design goal of the interaction is to support users to reminisce about their social network memories by dragging photos from different social platforms, positioning, rotating and decorating these photos. Through this kind of manipulation, users can see photo descriptions and friends' comments of the photos and thus can reminisce more about their social memories; since sometimes what makes photos memorable is the social interactions between photos and friends.
Collage of a Social Me
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Collage of a Social Me

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