2011 – Warning: Real Time Global Air Quality Display

Warning - Real Time Global Air Quality Display is an installation of ambient display that receives data from the internet about the air quality in 30 cities in 5 continents. The installation of these data is dynamically displayed on a screen and a physical structure through a lighting system (LED) located in a public space. The motivations for this project are digital aesthetics of climate change created by Pold, (2010), that means artworks in digital art involving the issue of the environment as a theme and the concept of eco-visualization curated by Holmes (2007) that can be defined as animations controlled by data that show any kind of environmental information in real-time. Source: Rodrigo Medeiros. Warning - Real Time Global Air Quality Display (video)

Added by: Rodrigo Medeiros. Category: Passive physical visualization Tags: air pollution, air quality, ambient visualization, arduino, open source, processing

2020 – LOOP: Ambient Visualization of Personal Activity

   LOOP is a physical artifact that changes its shape according to the activity data of the owner, providing an abstract visualization. The artifact consists of eight rings, of which seven represent weekdays from small to large, and the outermost ring represents the step goal. When the owner is active, the ring representing the current weekday moves upwards and positions itself in relation to the step goal ring. LOOP was used to investigate how an alternative approach to representing personal activity data can support self-tracking activities in everyday life. Sources: Kim Sauvé, Saskia Bakker, Nicolai Marquardt, and Steven Houben (2020) LOOP: Exploring Physicalization of Activity Tracking Data Kim Sauvé, Steven Houben, Nicolair Marquardt, Saskia Bakker, Bart Hengeveld, Sarah Gallacher, and Yvonne Rogers (2017) LOOP: A Physical Artifact to Faciliate Seamless Interaction with Personal Data in Everyday Life LOOP project page

Added by: Kim Sauvé. Category: Active physical visualization Tags: ambient visualization, shape-changing interface, self-tracking