Revealing the Facebook Social Graph in Physical Reality

Connections for Facebook [obscuradigital.com] developed by Obscura Digital was a physical installation demonstrated during F8, Facebook's developer's conference. Conference attendees were identified through their RFID-enabled event badge, so the projected visualization could access their Facebook profiles. The radial bar graphs surrounding an attendee was dynamically constructed from that person's complete graph data. Each blue bar represents a friends, a green bar maps to an interest, and the other colors represent various types of interests, such as books, movies, music, sports teams, arts, and so on. The connecting lines between people represent the shared connections, so that their relative density indicates the level of connectedness. Thnkx Ammon!

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