Ideas Seminar: Drew Skau
Date: September 13, 2013
Dr. Drew Skau focuses on real-time visualizations and digital
media. And also he interested in new digital fabrication methods. I think, his
research is primarily concerned with my research. I’m
studying with Prof. Mary Lou Maher recently on Envision Charlotte. The uptown
community can see data about collective real-time data on energy usage via
digital displays throughout the center city. This allows businesses and
individuals to keep track of their energy usage and to conveniently see how
much power they are consuming or saving via social media alerts. They expected
that with broader energy consumption awareness, all will be empowered to make
better personal energy saving decision which will collectively add up towards
the 20% reduction goal for the community. Unfortunately, it did not going well,
no one used this digital display. In this sense, we focus on creating
interactive display models about sustainable issues to communicate with people
and to change or evaluate human sustainability behavior for energy savings. In order
to encourage people’s participation, we’ve been looking for useful example of
infographic and visualization.
I think, Infographic and visualizations
are more powerful and effective way to literally catch people’s way. With the constant hustle and bussle of modern life, people have
short attention spans. And it is no wonder people experience information
overload. With smartphones, tablets and the ubiquity of the internet, people
are constantly receiving, analyzing, sharing and creating new information. Due
to this overload we need to stick out to get people’s attention. Creating a
compelling visualization of data or information can make it really stick out
from all of the other noise of day-to-day life. Moreover, by creating something
that is visually compelling, people are more likely to be engaged and creating
visualizations can make complex information easier to understand. In this
sense, I thought the examples and website he provides make me more convincing
and interesting.
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