extraction: screen path
by cnverge
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today: autoCAD, photoshop, internet explorer, and microsoft outlook.
what is going on here? fractals? map of the us? incredibly beautiful yet arbitrary graphics? nope! this is a map of my activity on my computer screen @ work- late this afternoon. Antoly Zenkov, an interactive artist & programmer, created a freeware (IOGraph) that allows you to graphically track your mouse movement for any amount of time. Lines represent mouse paths, and dots connote periods of inactivity.
Through abstraction, this map distills both space and narrative- it tells you where the most used buttons and fields are located on your screen, how long your lunch break might have been, how many times you closed a program, or what you might have been working on when you limped off to starbucks in the afternoon…
this is kind of awesome! you should make cards out of it. oh wait wait, it should be printed on the face of the card when firing people who are online too much!
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