First Draft of Analytics Engine Documentary

Wk 4: Flowgraph

Week 4: Demonstration

Review of Infographics

I discussed my concept which has evolved form my infographics today with Jules. 

My idea has come mainly from the infographic title "The HBO Recycling Program". If you could imagine the image turned 90 degrees clockwise, the coloured circles represent the lights under the floor which correspond to the people that enter the room. The more people that enter the room, the more of the lights turn on. The different colours could represent the persons emotions/ mood for example.

I would also like to make the actual person invisible and replace them with their actual name in text, so this infographic is a direct representation of what my analytics engine would look like. Jules suggested that I could turn the AI invisible by making it have no mesh. I could then attach an object which is the text so that the text is walking around. Ideally I would like to look into HUD messages and see if there is anything that I could use that way.

After reading more about Margarets concept on the ARCH1391 blog I have realised that she is trying to connect the light in the room with sociability. The light is meant to disperse after a certain amount of time to encourage people to move about and become more sociable. From this I have thought about making the text that replaces the AI to display more information about the person the longer that they are in the room, ie. the longer the AI is in the room, the more about them you get to know. It would be a play on facebook, where the more time you spend on someones page, the more information you start to gather about them.

Flowgraph from Demo

Demo of Infographics in Crysis

Coolinfographics

This info graphic has shapes in it which relates to beams of light, I am imaging that this image is turned 90 clockwise and the coloured lights are shining up into the floor... each beam is representing an individual and the writing is the name of that individual. Everywhere that the individual walks, the light follows.

 

I can imagine this infographic being represented as a floor space where the denser coloured areas are brighter due to the fact that there are more people standing in the area. The different images and colours could represent the types of people standing in that area or for how long the people have been in that area. This could be a useful analysis to determine efficient circulation for a large room that has a lot of people ocming and going... the people in the middle and out to the sides might be finding it difficult to get to the exit areas hence the reason for the centre to be so packed. 

The 4x infographics above are chosen purely for aesthetics. This kind of imagery would be great for the kinds of lights that could be used or even for the effect that the lit floor tile effect. It has also given me ideas  how I could represent HUD messages. To get HUD messages to display using lights or holographoc kind of materials could really benefit this experiment... something to go and research now....

This is a great video that Ros showed me which demonstrates how data is being represented digitally.