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Project:
To create a visualization of the relation between the emotional arousal and the artworks experienced by
a museum's visitor. This way the visitor can compare his body response (biometric data ) with his onw oppiniion or convictions.

What I can visualize:

  1. The relation between the emotional arousal and the artworks
  2. Just the emotional arousal in order to give the visitor a time dimension
  3. Visualize the relation btw both data by exhibition
  4. Visualize the relation btw both data by floor
  5. Having the possibility to visualize side by side the visitor's data with others visitor's data
  6. Visualize which visitors had similar experiences, whom the user created a connection with, and somehow ampify that connection

I've chosen the Moma Museum of Modern Art to make this simulation, since it's easier to get information and images about the artworks and exhibtions.

Some skteches of the first ideas:

        

I wanted to explore the idea that the visual representation of the body response should be something more organic, more related to the body. So I started by playing with shapes, but not happy with the result.

I decided to started working with the programmimg side of this applicattion and leave the visual look and
related concept for later:

  1. I started by creating a txt file that simulates how the data could be written (when it is saved by the program
    that is analizing the data in real time). click here to see the file
  2. Then I created the Artworks class that represents each artwork as a circle, containing information about the size of each one ( depending on the sensor value), color, position
  3. I sorted the array of the Artworks objects in order to have them organizing by the sensor value ( sorting algorythm)

Screenshots of the final images:



Visualization by emotion - the size of the circle is proporcional to the value from the emotional arousal.
When the user rollover each circle, the info about the artwork cames out


When the user press in one of the circles, the image from the artwork appears.



Visualization by exhibition


Visualization through time



Visualization of other users - timebased


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Download final applicattion ( mac version )
Link to code of the applicattion

 

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