Week 1
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

Other possible domains:
- Mixed Reality
- Eco-Feedback Technology
- Physical installations — sculpture/museum exhibition
- Interactive Website
- Mobile Application
- News Media
- Timeline of news stories in 2D
Precedents:
- http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/ — Used users music history to generate a graph showing their listening habits over time.
- http://newsdiffs.org/ — A means of collecting and archiving news stories over time.
- https://www.scoopmarkets.com/ — A news aggregator targeting day traders.
- http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/08/gregg_segal_photographs_people_with_a_week_s_worth_of_their_trash_in_his.html?via=gdpr-consent
- World’s Largest Dinosaur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfh-64s5va4
Dream Panel:
- http://yvonnejansen.me/dataphys — Yvonne Jansen amazing research into physical data visualizations.
- https://vimeo.com/user8071903 — Daniel Sierra, digital artist working in VR AR and procedural content.
- https://www.ducroz.com/ — Benjamin Ducroz, artist that blends the digital and physical worlds.
- https://ialab.it.monash.edu/~maxc/ — Maxime Cordeil, data visualization scientist that creates ImAxes a virtual reality toolbox to interact with data in novel ways.
For me the exploration of domains is through the prism of Data Visualization. Which is not to say it is restricting, last fall I experimented with data sonification and built a prototype of a physical referent for the project.


Recap
- What balance between passion project, scientific research, attention driven?
- Who’s my audience?
- What are you bringing to the technology?
- What are elements of successful theses you’ve seen?
- Any that didn’t fit the traditional mold
- Passion
- Enjoyable
- Rich ideas behind it
- Personal
- The right medium
- Iteration
- Get outside of Parsons
- Distance from passions — remember the audience
- Strength + comfort