Joining The Data

From there, we developed a storyboard which incorporated all of our ideas and the feedback we had received on Friday and once again on Monday. We worked out an interactive bus display which used video mapping and face recognition to put a user into a realtime data display where they could interact with realtime visual displays and gather information surrounding the Air Quality. Additionally, we had an integrated application which was part accessible from the display. This was an encouraging application to change certain behaviours and give information surrounding Air Quality. In addition, we tried to integrate a community school-based activity to promote longevity in the product we were creating. The storyboard for this concept is shown below.

After some feedback, it seemed that there were a few too many touch points in this concept and we were brought back to drawing board. From here we sketched a large number of different concepts in many shapes and forms, gaining insights from a number of different projects, visualisations, data artists and more. Finally, we met with Ben Dromey an expert who works in Data Visualisation. His suggestions to us included taking a more simplified approach. Our purpose was to visualise data and make people aware that there was data being collected about Air Quality. This may not be the strongest of engagement factors which I think we were previously overthinking but Ben reassured that the "one glance everyday" is enough of an interaction to undertake provided we can represent it in the correct way. We looked at some further concepts surrounding the visualisation of data in a number of ways. We are eager to get a final concept nailed as time is now becoming a major factor.