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We show different approaches of the students of Interactive Experiences at the intersection between design, technology, society and communication. In their proposals we find narratives that not only stimulate visually, but can also be perceived through the tips of the fingers, gestures, and bodies. Objects, spaces and graphics, analog and digital, for healthier interactions. The clear message that Generation Z not only transmits, but also proposes ways of understanding our world from a transversal and playful perspective. Let's play!
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Beyoutiful
Elena Borràs
Mario Santamaría
Laura Benitez
Graphic Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2023
Capital Merket
Maria Vodopianova
App
Internet Data Mining
2024
To investigate this idea, the author analyzed stock market mechanics and identified restricted dividend-paying shares contracts as the most suitable metaphor for the project. They conducted literature studies and analyzed sources that influenced each facet of their identity, creating a database with guiding principles. As a UI/UX design major, the author developed high-fidelity prototypes to demonstrate the concept. In conclusion, this speculative project highlights the growing trend of self-data becoming public and monetized, while interpersonal relationships become more transactional and less personal. Further project development involves programming the app and conducting real-life testing. It will be interesting to observe whether people perceive this as brutal and inhumane or as an acceptable concept, which would indicate yet another boundary being pushed in terms of privacy of self-data.
Data Portraits
Julia Han von Weyhem
Mario Santamaría
Graphic Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2023
Digital Glitch
Paula López Nuño
Graphic Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2023
Memes are powerful tools to spread political ideas fast and effectively. Data awareness actions are contemporarily relevant and necessary. Online platforms could eventually substitute political practices that are still anchored in previous times. Designers can take the lead on becoming key agents for reality questioning.
Embodied Internet
Valeria Castillo
Mario Santamaría
Data Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2022
During the last three months we've been exploring what it is to live as a human who exists somewhere in between two layers of reality. The physical and the digital.
As humans we know the physical very well, so how do we make the digital layer of reality something tangible? How does this bits and algorithm based layer operates? and most importantly, how do we visualise its magnitude and its implications?
So, as complex as the internet is, the challenge has been to communicate data in some terms that a human could understand, feel and relate to. We wondered, what is more comprehensible to a human being than his own body and suffering?
What would happen if a human, in his human terms had to experience this complex system?
Through the development of the project some of the insights we had were in relation to how the internet seems to be everywhere and know everything. We realised that if there was a God in modern times, it would definitely be the internet.
So what if a human in the search of becoming more, had to suffer in his own terms the velocity and the consumption of the internet?
The project is a reflexion about the opaque sides of this infrastructure that is as physical as our bodies. That has as many implications in the physical reality as any entity that needs a body to exist. And that we've seem to have forgotten that it was us, humans who developed it.
It is a review of what it is to be human, to hold a body. But also an invitation to question how this characteristics of the not so new digital layer of reality are changing our speeds, timings, consumption rates, production rates and our level of action inside it.
HeartBits
Simone Restifo Pilato
Mario Santamaría
Laura Benitez
Interactive Artifact
Internet Data Mining
2023
We are constantly creating information that we do not possess and neither do we know where it flows. An increasing amount of it comes from our physical bodies. The project focuses on the heartbeat as information, as an emblematic element used to challenge this flow. By means of the mechanical controls, the user rotates the handles to slide the texturized tape – printed with data-rich companies’ logos. By doing so, while wearing the smartwatch, the user tricks the heartbeats’s collection. The playful gesture is a symbolic moment in which the user gains back agency over the data coming from their own bodies.
Invisible Carbon Counting
Xinyi Wang
Laura Benitez
Mario Santamaría
Wearable
Internet Data Mining
2023
A vest that displays the carbon emissions of all modes of transport in real time. The device allows the wearer to display the carbon footprint of any specific vehicle in real time, and in Chinese. It is a metaphor for the current tension between the expectations of technologists for the general public to understand carbon emissions and the lack of understanding and indifference towards transport carbon emissions. Few people change their minds in their daily lives because of their carbon footprint.
I therefore wanted to create an interesting device that would allow the person wearing it to become a moving billboard.
Resunnection
Cheeun Shin
Anna Vidal
Eva Soler
Mario Santamaría
Laura Benitez
Graphic Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2023
Este proyecto, además de entender el transhumanismo, desde sus principios a los autores, y cuestionar la posibilidad de que este llegue a sus albores, también pretende abarcar la opinión actual de la sociedad respecto a este movimiento.
Los objetivos del proyecto se centran en indagar sobre el concepto de transhumanismo desde una perspectiva dual. Es decir, que incorpore la definición del término, así como conocimientos propios del movimiento, pero que también cuente con la opinión de la sociedad sobre estos. Por lo que se intentará entender la perspectiva de la sociedad actual respecto la evolución exponencial de las tecnologías y sus consecuencias. Además de tratar de comprender si hay una concienciación básica respecto al transhumanismo y en cómo se podría desarrollar en un futuro. En última instancia, representar visualmente la información recolectada para que pueda ser entendida con facilidad, y presentada públicamente con la finalidad de informar a la sociedad sobre esta posible futura realidad.
Sound of Domestic Violence
Idil Kiran
Graphic Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2024
The project uses Python programming to accomplish the data sonification process, which turns complex data sets into audio experiences. This approach makes it possible to interact with data on two particular indicators in a different, more engaging way: the frequency of lifetime experiences of violence among women and the attitudes of society against violence against women. By presenting this data in a sonified format, the project not only sheds new light on these statistics but also aims to deepen public understanding and stimulate discussion about this pervasive issue. The project's approach represents a significant step forward in how data on social issues are communicated and understood, making it a valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to address and mitigate violence against women.
Carbonify
Anita Stuberg
Mario Santamaría
Sofie Olsen
Lise Jakobsen
Graphic Visualization
Internet Data Mining
2024
For this project I have done online research, designed prototypes in Figma, coded the web-app using Node.js, Javascript, HTML and CSS, as well as connect it to the Spotify API. I have user tested the web-app on users to uncover errors and user friendliness.
Conclusions
During this project I have discovered that calculating the carbon imprint of such activities is a complex and hard task, because of so many different parameters. It is though very clear that listening to music has an impact on the environment, but it is indeed not the highest contributor in the world. And streaming music is said to be lower than buying CDs.