MFA Thesis
2009 – 2010

 

Collective Perusal

Collective Perusal is a thesis research project exploring and investigating behaviors and interactions when users are set in a collaborative environment.

 
 
 
 

Intro

Collective Perusal explores the social interaction of reading the news together through a series of experimental projects. The outcome of this project is a round tabletop interface allowing users to search, read and share news content with each other.

 
CollectiveA.png
 
 
 

Identity

The project started out with a series of posters looking into how people choose and pick what they wanted to read. I was also interested in using these selected articles to represent each person's thought and opinion

 
Identity.png
 
 
 

Collaboration

In order to investigate further on how people collaborate in the context of news reading. I created a "News Sphere" using a yoga ball and asked people to look for a certain article on the sphere. The participants were forced to work together carefully and to read through numerous articles in order to achieve their task.

 
 
 
 

Consensus

Here is another experiment looking into how people interact with one another in a collaborative scenario. In this experiment, a dynamic mosiac image is projected on the wall, with each participants controlling a certain area of the mosaic image by moving their bodies away or towards a proximity sensor (behind them), their goal is to collaborate with each others movements and transform the mosiac blocks into a complete image.

 
 
 
 

Outcome

Collective perusal is a round table top touch interface that allows two to three users to browse through articles, photos, videos and other digital contents together. The main idea is to create a surface that would enhance the collaborative experience for people who share same goals and objectives. I believe such design would be beneficial in situations such as group meetings or research projects where multiple people are involved with the same task.