Dataquarium
Feed-my-fish: real-time metaphorical representation of an intranet data
Feed-my-fish: real-time metaphorical representation of an intranet data
The dataquarium offers a virtual metaphorical vision of the Campus (intranet of L’Ecole de Design de Nantes) presented as an aquarium in which the environnement is generated according to the data of the website.
Users connected to the intranet move about in the shape of three different varieties of fish attributed to three different types of users : the students as Butterflyfish, the professors and coordinators as Clownfish and the Managing Director of the school as a Henochius fish.
Users connected to the intranet move about in the shape of three different varieties of fish attributed to three different types of users : the students as Butterflyfish, the professors and coordinators as Clownfish and the Managing Director of the school as a Henochius fish.
The environment (setting and flora) is dynamically generated according to daily stats concerning the number of users visiting the website of the school, the bandwidth used and the incoming and outgoing e-mails.
The fish behave in a randomly autonomous way. Through an input field, the interface enables users to send information so as to order their avatar within the aquarium to perform various actions : speed_my_fish, kill_my_fish, my_fish_alive, feed_my_fish.
Thanks to a management-console-like interface users are free to modify their personal data (e-mail, website Url) and to customize the default texture of their fish (image in bitmap format).
The dataquarium is included in a research projet called « datatainment » lead by Gregoire Cliquet, and has been presented to the « Carrefour des Possibles‘ (FING) in 2008.
Project made in collaboration with Julien Dumail and Gregoire Cliquet.
The fish behave in a randomly autonomous way. Through an input field, the interface enables users to send information so as to order their avatar within the aquarium to perform various actions : speed_my_fish, kill_my_fish, my_fish_alive, feed_my_fish.
Thanks to a management-console-like interface users are free to modify their personal data (e-mail, website Url) and to customize the default texture of their fish (image in bitmap format).
The dataquarium is included in a research projet called « datatainment » lead by Gregoire Cliquet, and has been presented to the « Carrefour des Possibles‘ (FING) in 2008.
Project made in collaboration with Julien Dumail and Gregoire Cliquet.
