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Acknowledging the roles and potentials of data as activators of the design process within the fields of speculative design and prototyping, we are running a study to foster collaboration between the fields of speculative design, smart materials, digital fabrication, and interactive artifacts. This paper presents the first outcomes from InData, an ongoing research project that investigates how envisioning and prototyping can be informed by data. In this paper, authors present the first research outcome: an interactive tool that scrapes and visualize data from IMDb.com to support designers in envisioning future scenarios outlining the design and testing of the tool through an iterative process that allowed improvements. The purpose of InData Scraping Tool is not limited to the mentioned applications, but rather they have been a pilot of a flexible tool and methodology applicable to other fields and scalable in larger experimental and applied actions.
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The work of Laura Varisco has been partially funded by TIM S.p.A., Service Innovation Department, Joint Open Lab S-Cube, Milano, Italy (PhD Scholarship). The work of Stefano Parisi has been partially funded by Fondazione F.lli Confalonieri (PhD Scholarship). The InData project has been funded by the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. The InData Scraping Tool has been developed by DeepGlance according to the authors’ directions. We thank Manuela Celi and Maresa Bertolo, respectively leading professors in Concept Design Studio and Game Design course. We thank all the students who participated in the tests.
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Varisco, L., Mariani, I., Parisi, S., Stepanovic, M., Invernizzi, M., Bolzan, P. (2020). InData Envisioning and Prototyping Informed by Data. A Data Scraping and Visualization Tool to Support Design Scenarios. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Colson, S., Choplin, A. (eds) Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. IHIET 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_68
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