A Framework of Organic Streams: Integrating Dynamically Diversified Contents into Ubiquitous Personal Study

Recently, SNS, blog and microblog have become very popular. A different form of diversified contents, comparing to traditional static HTML web pages, are so easy to be generated dynamically, and can be provided to users by timeline. These contents are generally processed data streams, and have become an important part of the Internet resources. In this study, we try to integrate these dynamically diversified contents, such as twitter stream data, into Ubiquitous Personal Study (UPS), a personalized virtual study proposed in our previous study. In this paper, we introduce and define a set of new metaphors to represent a variety of data streams, such as Drop, Stream, River, and Ocean. We propose a Framework of Organic Streams to meaningfully organize these stream data. We describe the design and implementation issues of a prototype system, and discuss a scenario of using the enhanced UPS to support learning that utilizes twitter data streams.