Kairoscope is social time.

If everyone says time is relative, why is it still so rigidly defined? Kairoscope removes the burden of time systems from users, replacing it with time from a human perspective. It allows people to coordinate events socially and on-the-fly, without worrying about precision—creating a constantly adapting and highly malleable schedule for its users.

So... What does that really mean?

Has your schedule ever not lived up to how neatly you had everything planned? Has a meeting ever run late? Have you ever had to reschedule a dinner because something else came up? Our lives are always in flux, so we've developed a scheduling system that can constantly adapt.

Can a website really change time?

Okay, admittedly no. This website serves two purposes: First, to establish a set of users interested in using social time as a method of managing their days. Second, we're building an event-based, location-sensitive open time database, and we want you to be a part. The more information we have about what happens when in peoples lives, the more context we'll have when working with scheduling and managing them.

If you're making a database, can I use it too?

That's the idea. Our open time database will have a set of APIs that are accessible to anyone who is interested in writing a client. Interested in knowing average dinner times in Providence, R.I.? Work schedules in Paris, France? Tomorrow's baseball game at Fenway Park? We hope to grow a significant set of time-related data to help answer these questions.

This sounds great! How do I participate?

We're not quite ready for the public yet, although we do have a limited number of private testers at this time. If you're interested in participating, go ahead and let us know. We'll be in touch as soon as any new developments occur, or if you're invited to participate!

Kairoscope is a project of the MIT Media Lab, written by ReeD Martin.