Tangible Anchoring explores potential practices for news reporting and analysis afforded by the convergence of tabletop computing, mobile usergenerated content, the Web, and broadcast media channels.
Tangible Anchoring visualizes polling data in a TV studio setup. The polling data is collected via mobile phones. This data is used in political debates in TV, where one anchor and two political discussants interact with the data on a multitouch table. The data can be explored by using finger and tangible objects. Three additional monitors in the studio show the data on the table as well as short political statements from individual persons.
This project was sponsored by CNN, Turner Broadcasting. I worked on the project during my research visit at Synaestethic Media Lab, Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta, USA under the Supervision of Prof. Ali Mazalek.
I was responsible for leading the design and the technical execution of a map-based information visualization. I helped create the overall project plan, the reading list for the students, and critiqued the design of interactions and tangibles during team sessions. I successfully incorporated existing code and generated new code to create a novel user interface for the tabletop, one that broadcasters could use to retrieve viewer-contributed video viewpoints. I also assisted the other co-lead in code reviews for other student’s work.
Technology:
Reactivision, TUIO, Java, Processing, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Team:
Susan Robinson, Eva Artinger, Aman Parnami, Ramik Sadana, Basheer Tome, Lauren Langley, Ravi Karkar, Megha Sandesh
