This information aesthetics post has “a collection of mobile phone applications that visualize information ambiently. The ‘Solar System’ application uses planets moving around the sun, in which each planet represents 1 communication partner & the size & velocity of the planet reflect the communication events. In ‘Aquarium’ uses fish to represent communication partners, & the size of the fish reflects the money the user spent on communication with this person. In ‘Bubbles’, each circle is a person & the size & speed of the circle represents communication meta-information with this person”.

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