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Twitter-Based Personal Graphing Tool Wins Carnegie Mellon’s 2009 Smiley Award
Grafitter, a technology that makes it easy to collect information about yourself over time and depict it in graph form on Twitter, is the 2009 winner of Carnegie Mellon University's second annual Smiley Award. The award, sponsored by Yahoo! Inc., recognizes innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication and is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at the university.
Grafitter is the creation of Ian Li, (http://ianli.com) a doctoral student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, who will receive the $500 first prize and a crystal trophy. Li won an honorable mention in last year's Smiley Award competition for his web-based Moodjam application that tracks people's emotional states, available at http://www.moodjam.org/ .
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