Semiotic citizen

Context

A gallery or exhibition space. 

Design concept

The viewer’s onscreen persona participates in a dystopic surveillance scenario where social credit scores are collected and used to determine how citizens are treated by the authorities.

Experiential qualities and related concepts

Affective, atmosphere, critical, immersion

Augmentation modality

Visual.

Technical options

Body and gesture recognition, back projection.

Prototyping techniques

Video scenario.

Source

Erik Asp, Karl Eknefelt, Jonas Fries, Fitim Selimi (Augmented Information Spaces class, Spring 2019)