Knowledge Universe

In collaboration

ECAL

Year

2026

An attention-aware browsing companion (Beyond Click)

Overview

Knowledge Universe is an attention-aware browsing companion. As you read the web, the things you dwell on are quietly grabbed into a personal, living knowledge graph that reorganises itself — no clicks, no commands. An LLM reads each grab, classifies it, links it to earlier ones and continuously reshapes the world across three lenses.

Service

Interaction Design

AI in Design

Data Visualisation

Content

Duration

16 Weeks

The Challenge

Today you save what you find by hand — screenshotting pages and keeping a dozen tabs open to come back to "later". It's manual, messy and easily lost. What if the system could read your attention instead: notice what you actually linger on, understand what you like, and cluster it for you — with no saving, no tabs, no folders?

The Solution

Mouse-dwell becomes the implicit trigger (Detection → Affordance → Progression): as you read, whatever holds your attention is grabbed. An LLM reads each grab, classifies it and links it to earlier ones, continuously reshaping a living knowledge graph across three lenses — Design (a knowledge graph), Finance (a market view) and Tech (a radar). Built as a working Electron prototype on live data with Google MediaPipe and the Anthropic Claude API.

The Result

Passive browsing becomes a self-building map of what you care about — a personal knowledge universe that organises itself. No manual bookmarking or tab-hoarding: the graph grows, links and re-clusters on its own, surfacing connections (and even forward-looking insights) you didn't know to look for.