관계를 풀어나가는 점에 있어 과정상 다양한 노드 및 관계를 가질 수 있다. ( A > B > C )
3. 복수의 노드는 정렬될 수 있다.
특정 데이터에 따른 정렬을 할 수 있다.
정렬 방식은 순차적인 방식으로 표현될 수 있다.
정렬 형식은 다양한 차원을 통해 재현될 수 있다.
3차원 이상의 재현 방식은 별도의 인터랙션이 필요하다. ( ex : perspective, timeline )
정렬의 시작점을 검색 행위를 통해 할 수 도 있다.
1차적인 결론은 단일 노드는 다양한 데이터 형식을 지원해야 한다. ( ex : Number, Text, Time, Position, Shape, Geo Location) 이는 다양한 DB table을 가져야 한다는 것이다. UI에 있어서 데이터 형식은 고유의 Perspective를 가진다. ( 3D, timeline, map ) 또한 다양한 관계를 통해 상위 또는 하위 개념을 유추할 수 있다. 마지막으로 정보시각화에서 볼 수 있는 다양한 강조 및 정렬 방식을 패턴 혹은 스타일로 만들 수 있다.
When I worked for The Mobile Middleware Company, I realised that a single product involves different kinds of knowledge and work groups. However, our consciousness has a limitation to cope with those and each group contributing towards the project can easily forget the bigger picture. Therefore, I decided to sketch up examples of those situations. I drew up some forms of my office and programmed one of them.
Each dot positioned in the white circle panel, means “Idea Object”. After beginning of an idea, we can choose several options – develop, reserve, check, delete, as in a Venn diagram. If one of those is developed, it records and shows elements of the idea and process. In addition, each white circle is surrounded by three environments and each element of the idea objects are linked with one of environments to show that which environment the idea comes from.
Although, I couldn’t finish this personal sketch, it was meaningful trial for me.
When I prepared my graduate show at Hongik University in South Korea in 2008, I tried to show our social behaviour. Actually, there were two concepts for the Exhibition. Although I installed just one of them, I want to introduce them both now.
The first is about inheritance of social rank. When I read Pierre Bourdieu’s theory which states that our culture is also inherited by the next generation, I wanted to represent Korean Society based on some of his ideas but I also wondered why our society is separated by the generation gap. Without judging social rank, I wanted to show this phenomenon and observe an audience’s reaction.
This simulation shows how to each person relates with other people depending on their education, property and age. I searched public data from Korean Statistical Information Service and then I merged the data into my work. Each icon represents a person in our society and each of them shows three different kinds of information. Each character is depicted showing how many educational courses he has done with a small book shaped graphical icon. In the centre and bottom of the character, these numbers show age and property. As the screen plays on, the superior character of the two connect with another character who has sufficient status to become a friend. When a main character reaches the average marriage age; he starts to try to connect with a female character that is coloured orange and after in one to four years later, they give a birth. When each character reaches the average life expectancy, they randomly die. This simulation is set in perpetual motion.
This tool or digital media representation is an efficient way of showing statistics about our demography and far more effective than a graph.
The Second project, which was actually installed at my graduation exhibition, is about religious addiction. When I have seen a religious movement in our society, sometimes they seem to forget their basis. For example, when the Protestant faith first came into our society, in early days they took care of poor people and shared their minds. However, nowadays, religions have become a most powerful group of Korean society and they have forgotten their early attitudes. Therefore, I decided to show this phenomenon. However, rather than showing an objective description, I represented my personal opinion.
In this second work, there are three different type of character and each group represents a different religious group, a poor group and a general group. Basically, religious group tend to help poor group and when they approach the poor, a small movie clip, which shows helping another people, is displayed and can be played repeatedly. However, when an audience flips the pages of bible in front of display, religious group stop helping the poor and gather to a certain point of the screen. When they are gathered, this group push out the poor and the general group moving around the display. In this work, I use a bible as a metaphor to blame a doctrine-centred religious attitude.
Although I actually exhibited the second work, I prefer the first work. That is because I don’t want to add my personal judgement into my work if I can possibly avoid it; I just want to let them to observe my work and realise something for themselves.
