Yannick Assogba

yannick @ media . mit . edu

Bio

Yannick Assogba is a graduate student in the Sociable Media Group interested in creating sociably enabling interactive systems that provide new opportunities for people to communicate with each other. Before coming to the Sociable Media Group he was a researcher at OBX Labs at Concordia University where he worked on integrating human performance with dynamic typography. Yannick received his BSc in Computer Science with a minor in Computation Art from Concordia University. Some of his previous work can be seen here

Current Work

Mycrocosm is a web service that appropriates the visual language of statistics to allow users to share small chunks of personal information and track a wide variety of the minutiae of their daily lives to build up a rich online picture of the tiny things they find meaningful. It is an exploration of the trend in microblogging and the audience this form of publishing enables.