When we sleep, our electronic devices lie awake. Our fridges, our freezers, our phone chargers, our boilers, our televisions and more, are all consuming energy - sometimes just a trickle, and sometimes a flood. Even in standby mode, most gadgets still consume small amounts of power. Unlike humans and other| Bar & Line
We've just released a new Loud Numbers data sonification project. It's an immersive audiovisual experience, representing data collected in 1859 during the Carrington Event - the strongest solar geomagnetic storm in recorded history. Telegraph stations caught fire and auroras were sighted as far south as the| Bar & Line
Every month or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I'm on holiday! I promised myself this year that I'd take a full month off work in July, Swedish-style, and I've more or less been| Bar & Line
Shengzhi Wu, Gray Crawford, Devika Singh, and Dan Lockton, 2017–18 Funded by the CMU College of Fine Arts’ Fund for Research & Creativity, and using data provided by CMU Facilities Management Services. Read our CHI 2019 Late-Breaking Work paper Lockton, D., Crawford, G., Singh, D.,… Read more| architectures by Dan Lockton