Social Sensing and Its Display

ion exercised in “D-Tower” (e.g., calculated statistics representing mood with color), our interface depicts the social nature of the place with the directness of the voice, and intends to capture the subtleties of intonation, stress and mood embedded in the voices accompanying their message. In our design, we inspire to the kind of social responsibility rooted in Wodizcko’s work. Similar to the “Tecut Project,” our interface intends to give a voice to people so they can make a social statement. While our work is spatially less interventionist and socially less interrogative than his, we depict a number of anonymous individuals together, and explore their emergence as a group that cohere around their similarities and differences. Like the “Storycorps” project, we collect voices from participants, although not as stories but as snippets of responses. We construct a collage out of these Figure 2.12 “Points of View” by Debby Akam and Byker Bridge Housing Association.