TODAY, Visualize Your Calls

This ambient and personal data visualization app, translates the amount and type of calls you make and receive in a day into a compelling and readable graphic — the story of your day.


Each call or message generates a symbol which appears in real time at the centre of one of two spirals (left incoming, right outgoing), and with each new call or message they all move one position chronologically, the result being an ever-changing, evolving image.


Each symbol created during the course of a day is also given a colour and each communication with that colour, or rather phone number, is measured in duration and intensity: symbol size relates to the length of a call, intensity gives symbols visual weight depending on the speed by which you attend a call — an urgent call being more colour saturated than an untimely unknown number.


Today is a personal and intimate piece. Some days will be really colourful and wired, others quieter and more reflective, either way the resulting visuals will always be unrepeatable and unique.


Features
- set as a real-time Live Wallpaper (without interactive features)
- switch between daily or weekly cycles (to give light phone users similarly colourful results)
- slide back and forth to browse through cycles
- use slider to see the data, or activity log details behind each symbol (contact name, date and duration)
- pinch to zoom in and out of a visualization
- create an image of a visualization at any point in a cycle, and save to your phone and/or share online. Depending on hardware capabilities, saved images are 1, 2 or 3 times larger than screen size and are made in either portrait or landscape.


Privacy
We, the Today developers, have no access to any of your personal information and cannot publish any personal information or collate any personal information from your use of the Today App. The underlying data is your property, and since it stored locally, on your phone, no third party has access to it. If you decide to save a visualization image and share it online, what is published is only that: a static image of a visualization and not your data.


Credits
Produced by CADA
Idea and Design: Sofia Oliveira / Jared Hawkey
Android Development: Addition
Symbol Design: Sílvia Prudêncio
Graphic and Web Design: thisislove studio