Week 3 exercise & Project 1

In class exercise & Video Tutorials

• (don’t have much thoughts on this week’s exercises, we mainly practiced with the ones starting with “pt“, like ptPanel3D.   

 

 

 

 

• • • Planar Surf
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Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Project 1

This is the development of my ideas for project 1. If nothing goes wrong, it will be a phone stand 🙂

• About the data: 
  • I collected my screen time, time using social media (especially WeChat and Red), and my rating for my feelings that day (how do I feel about my productivity/ howdo I feel about my body/ how is my overall mental-wellness) as my data. The rating is based on the scale of 1~5, 3 means neutral, 1 means very bad, and 5 means very well. 
  •  As for how I plan to embed these data, the positive feelings (which come from being connected to other people, especially those who I can’t see very often in person), will be shown in the link part 🔗 (based on the numbers, the 🔗 will change in size); (I referred to this video for help)
  • the other part of it will be a measuring tape that signifies the societal perception/ standard of beauty projected and circulated through social media. (for this part I will use the twist command)
  • I want to use the shape of water splash to present my screen time. It can be the part that hold the phone stand. Here I want to take the idea from the talk by Alberto Cairo, about highlighting data. For those days that I felt especially bad or well, I want to highlight them by making the size larger. Maybe I will also use the variation of color 

• • Reasons for visualization (like that): 
    • It can be drawn from my hand-drawings that my idea developed from the phone case to headphones to phone stand. The reason why I gave up the phone case is because I don’t think it will come out as something practical (at least I don’t want to hold that weird shape in my hands, although I know data visualization doesn’t necessarily have to make some practical thingies). Headphone is the second because it is something related to the phone. But if I want to integrate my screen time data, the shape of it will be strange again, and it won’t be comfortable to wear. So eventually I turned to the phone stand. 
    • I once wrote this to describe my interactions with the phone and social media (it also explains why I collected these data): “On one side it is the link. It brings people together, forms soul to soul connection. On the other side it is the chain. It is the shackles that shape how we perceive ourselves and the world.” 
    • As for the water splash idea, I want to show that the phone/ social media has such great power that it is striving to suck people in (but I don’t know how to find reference picture online ;; so i just put it this way)