J. Nathan Matias Creative Portfolio, December 2010
Academic
Philadelphia Fullerine (documentary)
Philadelphia Fullerine (research)
Comparing Spatial Hypertext Collections
Tragedy in Electronic Literature
Ethical Explanations
Operational Media Online
Syntagmatic Browser
Tinderbox Web Viewer
Truth, Trust, and the Textual Camera
Web Art Science Camp London 2010
E-LitCamp Boston 2009
Accordion for the World
The Hacktatus: Wittgenstein Design Project
Academic Integrity Marketing
Literary Choice in Interactive Fiction
Non-Portfolio Academic Work
Business
Emberlight: Visual Notes Online
Scaling for kgb's Super Bowl Television Ad
kgb Multiroom Web Chat Interface
Dr. Johnson: A Rapid Prototyping Framework
Dressipi Sibyl
TouchType
Harbour Coffee Online Sales Interface
Elizabethtown College Admissions
Etown.edu Information Architecture
Texperts and the Knowledge Generation Bureau
Performance Testing & Instrumenting Web Applications
kgb Web Application Interface Integration
Workstation Status Dashboard
Back of the Envelope
Design & Art
Swift-Speare: Statistical Poetry
Stretchtext Authoring System
Recital: Notes from an Itinerant Mind
Exhibit: Abolitionism in Britain
Sculpture: Read for the Sky
Visual Summaries Project
Design: Competetive Debate
Radio Show: Echoes of America
Design: Edward Tufte at Intelligence2
The Normative Decisionmaking Model
Card Storytelling Software
Projects with Tinderbox
Other
Libyan Higher Education Documentary
World University Documentary Prototype
The University Lives Collection
The Ministry of Stories
Timelines for Citizen Case Management
Cambridge Union Society E-Voting Policies
TouchType
Summer 2010 - present
Revolutionary language prediction for touchscreen devices

As Global Language Solutions Development Lead at TouchType, I am focused on the expansion of our solutions into new regions and languages. I also have responsibility for language prediction quality initiatives. In this role, I have:

  • Developed Dr. Johnson, a rapid prototyping framework for language prediction products
  • Designed an architecture for evaluating, reporting, and archiving historical data about language prediction quality
  • Developed Heroditus, a remote exception logger for Android applications which is used internally within TouchType
  • Developed an anonymisation system which allows third parties to donate language samples within data protection and privacy regulations
  • Internationalised SwiftKey, our award-winning keyboard for Android
  • Managed the localisation process for SwiftKey
  • Prototyped viral campaign concepts

Here is a video of SwiftKey: