The Team for this project was Ina Xi, Hoon Oh, and me.
Theme:
The Greyscale between Active and Passive reading.
Attitude:
Our attitude towards this project is experimental. We are aiming to create a new way of accessing and organizing information so we can easily see patterns and connections to other areas of interest.
Concept:
We have identified two extremes while approaching reading:
Active: The user actively looks for specific information that is needed.
Passive: The user takes a serendipitous journey, expecting to find something new and interesting.
If we visualize one extreme as black and the other as white, we soon realize that people’s reading habits are situated on a greyscale: the two reading modes do not exclude each other. We think it would be very useful to sort the ocean of information according to our reading interests first, but also to have an open end to include serendipity. With our E-reader the user can choose any point between being an active and a passive reader.
The full presentation of this project is here
