Project #9 Data Portrait --- RING RINGS

Project Description

This project is created to collect my habitat of playing ring on my hand and visualize this habit with p5 sketch. I got this ring as a 18-years-old birthday present from my parents, and I have been wearing it for many years. Recent years I found that playing with my ring have become my habit, and for this project I would like to explore my relationship with this habit. As the instruction below shown, I collected data for seven days and visualized it in 7 circles which divided into 10 time sections.

Instruction

Design Process

Recorded Information

I started my process with a set of rules of how and what I need to record for this project. As the image shown, I use symbols to represent the ways I play with ring to simplify so that I can record easily on my phone notes. I also set 10 different time in a day to record the data. Then after 7 days, I made the data into json file where I map the way I played with my ring onto 10 time period for 7 days. I creates circles of 7 days. And I create different shapes to represent the way I played, and map them onto the circle (the instruction is shown on pervious diagram). I use setTimeout() and setInterval() so that the visualization is animated and have a blinking effect.

Reflection

I think I should definitely record more data daily in order to understand better about my habit of playing my ring. The visualization of my collected data actually let me notice something I have never noticed. For example, I like to playing my ring with one hand while I was studying and playing it often while listening classes or watching video. I think to improve my project, I should also record the emotion or feeling at the same time, so I can understand better the reason behind this behavior.