DAPTEC stands for Data Physicalisation Technology. DAPTEC is about giving data a physical shape/ form and in doing so, making it more accessible, and inclusive. Our team is interested in finding new tangible and creative ways of generating value from existing yet often invisible data. We believe that many transformational societal outcomes can be derived from improving the availability of data and in doing so, make it more meaningful.
The project is funded by the Welsh Government Smart Expertise (European Regional Development Fund).
Thinking about the interaction. One idea is to have any number of standalone objects… each will have a 2.4GHz transceiver, and can be interacted with in some way (hopefully capacitive field). These will connect back Read more…
Light bulb moment. We have been trying to think of ways of making the uninteresting weather data more engaging. We have now started to think about interaction as a way of answering this question. For Read more…
The bigger environmental story is important to us on this project too. We are hoping to pitch an aspect of the physicalisation against the global environmental data picture as a way of highlighting the vulnerabilities Read more…
