For my conference project, which is meant to represent an invisible event, I decided that I wanted to investigate an event that would be considered implicit to my explicit thoughts/actions. This way, motivations behind such actions would be forced to be exposed, even if they are not properly explained. For this reason, I wanted the visualized data to represent some subjective opinion of mine which could be compared to objective events, hopefully elucidating my invisible reactions to visible events.
I had a few rough ideas, none of which truly investigated an invisible event. One involved gathering all of my letter grades onto a 2D surface and using color to indicate whether or not I agreed with it. I ended up not going with this because I realized that the letter grade was not an objective event, but rather another subjective opinion, and I wouldn’t be implying any particular motivations behind my actions.
To improve upon this I decided that the event needed to be physical, and eventually came up with the idea of tracking my opinion of specific experiences. I picked two places on campus, one that I don’t spend much time in but would like to visit more often (Andrews Backyard), and one that I spend a lot of time in but would like to visit less often (The Pub). For 15 days, I recorded how many minutes I spent in both places, and then rated each experience on a scale of COLD (bad), COOL, WARM, and HOT (good). This way, I could take my subjective desires for experience and show how my motivation changes when I investigate them.
