Students work on their projects
You stand in front of a towering wall, and a colourful yet ghostly version of yourself mirrors your movements. Thousands of tiny words cloud your hands, legs, and swim menacingly around your head. Each word represents a portion of your online footprint, your public online presence: names, locations, work history, status updates, children's names, details of a conversation had online in 2007, and thousands of other traces of your past swarm your extremities. The students who built the interactive public display Street Spirit are using big data with the aim of shocking their audience and encouraging debate around data privacy. The exhibit has been created for the annual Interaction Design Exhibit , taking place tomorrow (Tuesday 30 May) at The Edge, State Library of Queensland in Brisbane The student groups comprise a mixture of undergraduate Information Technology and Master of Interaction Design students. Alyssa DiSalvo, from the team that built Street Spirit, said their project was designed to highlight the benefits and consequences of a future where information is widely available and mediates our experience of the urban environment. "The installation aims to explore the human value of privacy, and to spark reflection on our current digital practices and their future social implications," Ms DiSalvo said.
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