Apple Computer, Human Interface Group,1991
Project Description:
This was a pie chart where each viewer could shift the consensus of how conflicting
priorities should be resolved. A computer
graphic pie chart filled the screen. Each slice represented a portion of the city.
A viewer could then pick a slice and reallocate resources from one slice to
another. While the viewer worked on a slice video bytes advocating spending
in that area showed through the slice. The idea was to have this video sent
in by community groups on a daily basis forming a computer-based television
network. After a while, a video face would come out of the pie and editorialize
on the reallocation. NYU and Apple Computer cosponsored the project. A prototype
was demonstrated at SIGCHI ‘92.’
Technical Notes:
This used a videodisc and later QuickTime controlled by HyperCard. The touch-tones were decoded by a BlackBox
DTMF to ASCII converter.