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To expand my knowledge on how data is stored, used and shared digitally and globally, I looked into how computer based interaction with users is important to our everyday lives. Certain interfaces and websites provide users with different tools and things that would aid the user with monitoring, calculating and storing useful data that would ease our everyday lives.

I looked into a variety of different computer based data interaction interfaces, where I analysed how each of them worked, and the level of user participation on the website.

Pachube/Cosm

ioBridge

ThingSpeak

Sen.se

- Twitter
- Online Applications
- Data Storing + Handling (eg. charts)
- Control real things remotely
- Devices
- What's happening + what people are feeling
- Not as user friendly, as you have to request for an invitation (long registration) to be able to use website, which they would only give you if you have good reasoning as to why you want to use their website
- Website iss easy to navigate and looks attractive and professional
- Monitoring
- Free for users

- Light Levels + Monitors
- Applications on other energy monitors
- Data Processing
- Apps + Plugins
- Connect to Twitter
- Data Storage
- Channels
watch things, device, app, anything that can send data
- HTML, Javascript, CSS files to display data (plugins)
- Devices (store info)
- Free usage
- Create your own channel

- For configuration, control and monitoring
- Applications
Widgets (temperatures + humidity)
Modules (web gateways - control things like switches locally)
Dashboard (present raw measurements in several options (eg. charts)
Mobile Apps
- Drag and drop things in to space
- Everyday items in household + easy and cost effective for everyone
- Free usage
- Create your own widget

- Connect devices and apps (fitness trackers, energy monitors, air quality sensors)
- Exchange data + ideas with developers
- Search for devices by user, location, tag and unit
- Find commercial products and apps
- Handle real time data (XML, JSON, CSV data)
- Find out what's happening right now + interesting data
- Control, Monitor and Analyse
- Track device state and location
- Alerts and Notifications
- Collaborate with others (get help, follow people, build communities + conversatioins)
- Share data securely
- Free to use

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