Thursday, November 21, 2013

Some more ideas about our Visualization Design

Hei, 

We had a meeting to talk about the concept for our Energy down project. This is what we came up with:


Identifying our data set:

Form: location, dates, an amount
Data type: numbers presenting amount of energy consumption, numbers representing time, string representing addresses.
Internal structure: some kind of scale, comparison
Limits: no co-ordinate is smaller than 0. No date is older 2000.

Gamification part: We should be able to simulate history & comparison with others. 

Level one: Global over view “simcity”

The user sees a map of the city, represented in a videogame-like atmosphere (simcity-like for example http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/16324/2447664-simcity_20city.jpg). Areas on this map glow according to the energy consumption.

“The Battle game of energy”

You can battle against different people from the city and based on your energy consumption/level you have different amount of energy/strength for the battle.

You can choose opponent by clicking on the map or entering their address.

When you win a battle (animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFIj_8daVU&t=192) you get some points according to how good your opponent is (how little energy he uses). You can battle 5 times per day.

People are then ranked according to the number of points they gained from battles.


Level two: Individual level.

By clicking on their house/block, a person can see the energy consumption of their own apartment, their building, city part and compare it to their neighbors (average for privacy issue) and other buildings, city parts etc. This would be represented inside a model of their building (google maps 3D modeled view)

They can also see the evolution of their own consumption over time and simulate the future impact of different actions (for example, “show the energy consumption if I don’t use lights for a week”)




Some links to prior projects and datasets:

  Gamified approach to change in behaviour with energy data (Helsinki pilot)

  Data samples from US


  Statistical history data on energy use in Helsinki

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