Sherelog is a system that fetches data from JR’s Suica RFID train pass and visualizes personal train-ride records on a large public map (or Google Map). Koutaro Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Toshio Iwai, Michitaka Hirose showed this system at the Japan Media Arts Festival earlier this month. The developers’ intentions seem to be (1) to support people to remember their personal travel histories and reflect upon them and (2) to create unique opportunities for communications by making it extremely easy to share personal travel histories.

It may be some kind of a side effect that people can access and use the train-ride records stored in Suica. So, something JR East may not have imagined was created by the team of researchers/artists. There are software tools for Suica, such as SF Card Viewer (this one’s for end-users) and SF Card Peeper (this one’s for geeks). Sharelog uses SF Card Peeper.

There is an online version of Sherelog that shows anonymous travel histories using Google Map. (try, for example, putting “1″ and “10″ in the two text fields and then push the button). Found on: RFID Japan

Related posts:

1. Japan Rail, DoCoMo State Mobile Suica Plans
2. Suica Comes Pre-Installed on KDDI
3. Mobile FeliCa and Suica Merge
4. Suica IC Cards Make a Splash with Electronic Posters
5. JR East, NTT DoCoMo, Sony to launch Mobile Suica handsets

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