Awavy

Record the diary in a meditative way

Dan Qi Qian, Tianxu Zhou

https://youtu.be/NG69HF2Ndx8

Description

It’s an AR voice diary where users could record their own diary and the recording will be translated into a simple drawing in the space, at the same time, users will get audio feedback which in the end will be turned into music composition.

IMA/ITP New York
ITPG-GT.2180.001
Mobile Lab
VR\AR

Location$$

Location$$ is a web-based social experiment that is designed to simulate awareness for mass surveillance, it provides creepiness and unease once you agree to share your location.

Dan Qi Qian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xyYkWTobWk&feature=youtu.be

Description

Location$$ is a multiplayer web-based experience designed for providing creepiness and unease once you agree to share your location.

Location$$ starts with a simple dialogue box, which is the first thing showing up every time a new application is installed, asking our permission to get access to location data in exchange for customized services normally with vague or incomplete prompts. We all know once we agree, our data is updated in every few seconds, aggregated, shared and sold to help advertisers or even hedge funds. Mass location surveillance has morphed into a data collection and analysis machine as smartphones have become ubiquitous and technology more accurate. Each anonymous location sharing could become personal location analysis, revealing the most intimate part of your personal life.

The site gives you street view based on your location, when you click on others’ mouse, their street view replaces yours and ] location name stays. When other people click, they’ll leave some trails too, which means once it's shared, everyone knows.

Besides, open questions exists that for example, in this global pandemic, mass location surveillance is taken in action to maintain social health. People turn on location data because it makes things functional. What attitudes we should hold for location surveillance? What if location sharing and analysis become fully transparent?

IMA/ITP New York
ITPG-GT.2469.001
Veillance
Privacy/Security

Purell Wonderland

Purell Wonderland is an organic virtual place designed for making fun of social or behavioral responses to coronavirus.

Dan Qi Qian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az2XIGQRQ7A&feature=youtu.be

Description

Purell Wonderland is designed in a time when quarantine first started, and our social behavior was just being deployed to assuage fears, understand risk, improve public health and implement social distancing strategies.

For the designer herself, she got bored for staying at her room in the first 2 weeks in the quarantine, and was touched by new-born flowers once she went out for a walk. She believes we all have some connections with the nature and that matters.

That's why she designed a place where provides exposure to a virtual nature and humor to help ease coronavirus anxiety. The landscape is shaped with graphical lines into the look of hand sanitizer, an essential object in current social environment, but it's hard to recognize until you reach to a higher place.

IMA/ITP New York
ITPG-GT.2177.001
Synthetic Architectures
VR\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\AR,Play/Games