What if you could see invisible health data in your immediate area? I worked with Spatial Information Design Lab director Sarah Williams and Columbia University Computer Science PhD candidate Sean White on visualizing air quality data for mobile devices. After recording and geocoding carbon monoxide levels around Manhattanville in New York City, the group is exploring ways this information can be made accessible on mobile devices and augmented reality views. I helped design ways users can explore air quality data in their immediate surroundings through map views, live street views, and other useful layers of information such as land use, demographics, data points, and interactive messages. In the end, this work will help improve site visit tools for architects and urban planners and make invisible health data accessible to all through mobile phone applications. 2008.
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Hey Candy, great project. Do you know of any visual display systems similar to this, but which communicate information about buildings? ie. water usage, energy usage etc? in a graphical method?
Hey Ora thanks, you can find some interesting stuff on pachube http://www.pachube.com/