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Flowers-- the begining ( exercise made with Itai)

This time I decided to do the same exercise and improve the garden with a better movements of the flowers and with same interaction - the flowers. (not finished)
see here

We went to observe the dynamics around the elevator both in the main floor and in the 4th floor. Here are some videos and observations:

3 people waiting: they almost don't speak with each other and they don't move around so much, only small movements with the feet.

She waited around half a second. Moving around, always very close to the door of the elevator and looking up very often.

Typical movement when waiting: press button to call elevator, step back for a while, step forward again, press button again, step back. It's almost like a dance in slow motion. And another thing that we observe is that people normally stand and wait in front of the buttons, not in front of the doors.

People like to press the button more that once

Some people prefer to move more around the space near the elevator, while they are waiting.

ITP students are very healthy and energetic. Most of the students, we can say, 90% use the stairs. They don't want to wait for the slow elevator. Why we are doing this?? c'mon guys, we are doing this for u!!

Even when they seem that they are going to use it. At least is a good example to see the what happens when a big group of people is around the elevator.

How people use space when they are arriving by elevator

People arriving and leaving the floor

This is my first applet using Strings and Parsing Text from a website.

For this week I try to do a serial communication btw Arduino and Processing. Put them in love, somehow.
I'm using 2 potentiometers as an input to change the size and color of ellipses in Processing.

The idea was to create something more abstract and I like the effect on this last experience, where I was playing with alpha values and the random size of the balls.

How started
Final Version
Applet version - something similar, ehehe

My Idea for the Midterm Project for Computational Media is to make a visualization of Spam.
Data Visualization and Mapping Information are one of the research areas I've been working for a while. In recent years these areaa have grown exponentially and today we see, more than ever, all kind of data being exposed to this trend. Not that I’m not happy with this, I think it is extremely important to explore news ways to visualize information and create systems that improve the readability and understanding of it. But, at the same time, it has become more a trend than a necessity and we end up mapping useless information, in my opinion.
So, I decided to map and explore ways to visualize information that we consider irrelevant and annoying, without meaning (it can be arguable) or importance. Like spam.

Where does the term spam come from ?
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see it on YouTube

Projects using spam and making visualitions about it or using it:

Cry for help

A book that illustrates the scam-mail from Africa. Like the author says," The African scam-mails differ from other fraudulent e-mails in their creativity, audacity and their ludicrous claims. They are fancifully written and thrilling to read".

SpamTrap

Interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email. The artist created a specific email account to receive spam email and expose that email account to several websites, hoping to be tracked by bots and spammers. Spam Traps are usually used to catch spam.

MakeLove Not Spam

screensaver that endlessly request data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam emails, with the aim of increasing server load on those sites to the point their operation became unprofitable ( project finished)

Email Spam Plants

The attributes of the plants are defined by spam emails. Subject lines, headers & footers are parsed: it detected relations btw data: IP addresses form sender are used to change color, from 0 to 255; the time defines if the plant is smaller(morning) or larger (evening); the size of the msg influences how bushy the plant is; certain keywords might trigger more branches ( viagra is not used to make it taller)

SpamGraffiti

Online Visualizations created from spam messages received by # emails accounts.
Spam appears as layers and time is used to overlap each one ( the newest is one the top)Each email accounts appears visually different, in order to compare them.

Email Erosion

"A physical data visualization system that models a bio-degradable, starch-based block of foam using spam & email as stimuli. Based on the content of an email, the system rotates the block & lowers or raises the sprayer, to erode parts of the foam with sprays of water." (scr= information aesthetics)

Email Spam Paint

Put more info!!

The aim of my mid term project is to Visualize Spam. Please read this to know more about the concept. Since this is going to be my proposal for the final project in this class, I decided to start by implement just a simple part of this complex project:

1. Load (into processing) three local text files of different kind of spam email(ads, money, privacy);

2.Extract the date, subject and length of each one

3. Use that data to display 3 circles : the circles are position on the screen according with the date ( older email goes near the upper left corner ) ; the size of the email depends on the length of the email; each circle is identify by it's subject

I consider this study just a starting point and the result become exactly the opposite that I wanted to create in the beginning. I wanted the result to be visually annoying and noisy, like spam but to simplify I decided to represent each email as a circle that was displayed according the data of it's related spam email.
It was very good to learn how to extract data from files and translate that data visually. I figure out that I was harder that I was expect and I learned a lot.