CiVo: real-time visualization of social activities by cartoonized twitter

Authors:
Mitsuru Nakamura;Yosuke Miyazawa;Yoshikazu Kidera;Tsuyoshi Moriyama;Motoyasu Tamaki
Affiliations:
Dept. of Manga & Dept. of Media and Image Technology, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan;Dept. of Manga & Dept. of Media and Image Technology, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan;Dept. of Manga & Dept. of Media and Image Technology, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan;Dept. of Manga & Dept. of Media and Image Technology, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan;Dept. of Manga & Dept. of Media and Image Technology, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
Venue:
ICEC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We propose a web system called CiVo (City Voice) that is capable of visualizing public conversations on the Internet. It monitors the posting on the Twitter with respect to a set of specific phrases and displays the correspondent movie clips with cartoons on the time line on CiVo when it finds them. It extends the Twitter to a visual social medium that allows people to share what happens in the world at a glance. The main loop of CiVo runs on PHP while monitoring the Twitter using its API and it returns a specific SWF file to the HTTP clients for each GET request. The SWF file always updates its sub-SWFs reflecting the phrases found on the Twitter.