INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION: READ MY MIND
2025
Solo Project
Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, Physical Fabrication An interactive design where viewers explore the inner beliefs of strangers and react with stickers to indacte which ideas resonate and which inspire understsanding. An emergent data visualization reveals how the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) community engaged with the concepts more broadly.
Part of a larger exhibition about moral character hosted by CMU, my project asks viewers: What do you wish people knew about you?
What do you wish people would do without you having to ask? In order to make my interaction intuitive for exhibit viewers, I used two large gears to indicate that my design was meant to be touched.
Quotes from different interviews I conducted, ranging from wheelchair users to college students, were positioned around the edges of the lower circle. When spun, the top circle gave people the option to place stickers to express their reactions to the perspectives they were reading: red stickers to express learning a new point of view, blue to express resonance.
Over the course of the exhibition,
viewers read new perspectives and took part in actively growing a data visualization.
In my accompanying 24.5 x 70 inch poster, I made my own font out of assets that mirror the interactive gears on the front of my design. I showcased key quotes that encapsulated my inspiration regarding the topic of mind reading.
This project helped me flex my interaction design muscles, and learn how to use physical fabrication tools such as the laser cutter and cricut in order to create my gears and create my interactive sticker designs.