Open Data; a public installation - master thesis project

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This project was developed from idea, research to prototype as my “Advanced Science and Interaction Design” master degree thesis at SUPSI. The final idea was an interactive public installation to aware people of the existing of “Open Data” and its importance in nowadays democracy. It also creates a space for people to socialise and interact with each other. This video is a demonstration of a small prototype created to show the main concept of the project. This physical prototype was created using Arduino, and early digital prototypes were done using Processing. Rhino was used to design the prototype models.

Thesis Abstract:

Public spaces represent a big part of our daily lives. We encounter different people everyday, yet we don’t have a lot of social interactions with them. Aiming at increasing social interactions between strangers in a public spaces, raising to their attentions daily topics for discussions, and making them more engaged in their community, a public tangible interactive installation would be developed in this research process which aims at creating a reflective, collaborative, and entertaining experience. Furthermore, Open Data is used to reach this research goal, by creating an awareness campaign about what is Open Data through the interactive installation in a public space. Open Data is defined as the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. As a strong connection exist between the initial aim of this research and Open Data, this research would further investigate the possibility of designing an interactive installation to create an awareness about Open Data to the public in the streets, by giving them an opportunity to also explore and understand those data.

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