ROMAN GRASY

Tangible Data metaphor case study The ideaData or data-streams are not tangible for us at all. We just see graphical abstractions of 1 and 0, visualized as folders, files or loading bars on our screens. Also the capacity or the occupied space on our hard- or flash drives is only visualized digitally. We never know for sure, how much memory is presented on the data storage, we carry around with us. Our challange was to find opportunities to intensify the existing abstraction of real objects through the haptic channel. This way, we wanted to create new metaphors - make data feel more human. DataBot MouseDataBot Mouse is an experiment of giving data physical properties and make the communication/interaction with abstract data more human and easier to understand. This reconstructed mouse is able to communicate three different properties of data. It can show you the weight of files and folders by thwarting with different forces, according to the file-size. Further you are able to set a..