Curiosity Study

Curiosity Study Created an intervention and put it in a public space, make people interact with it out of curiosity.	Materials	Planning
Wood work	Building Process	Building Process
Finishing	Instruction outside We tried to make instruction as simple as possible.	Instruction inside With reflective surface inside the curtain, we asked people to draw their outlines with this city at this very moment.
Interaction The mother pulled the rope for this girl to draw outline.	Interaction People got curious with this huge black-curtain -covered set in the park.	Interaction Always needed one person to pull the rope so that people can see the front and draw. This design boosted interaction between strangers.
The Inside of the Curtain	Interaction When one person pulled the rope, actually everyone in front interacted with this set by just seeing the curtain went up.	Interaction At first, this man was afraid of pulling the rope, cause he didn't know what will happen.
Interaction Then he found it interested to pull the rope, but he still didn't want to see the front cause he thought it was scary.	Markers	Another Test in Rainy Day
Weather Affected People's Curiosity Few people stopped and tried to interact.	Interaction It still had some curiosity power.	Analysis Time affected what people are doing and how many people and maybe people's emotion.
Analysis About 40% of people that stopped by this drew on the board.	Analysis Ethnic group difference may also affected the curiosity level.	Analysis This data is not clear, mixing with the age level in the location we set up this.
Anaylsis Although in NYC female people out-numbered male, but with this huge difference, maybe female people are more curious than male.	Our Group! (from left to right) Catherine Schmidz, Gunjan Raheja and me.

Curiosity Study

This is a group project with Catherine Schmitz and Gunjan Raheja.

We built this giant wooden board with black curtain covered. The rope was in the back, and once rope was pulled, the curtain raised at the front.

It was for study people's curiosity.We wanted to make people interact with this set driven by their curiosity, and at the same time triggered other people's curiosity.

By putting this in the Washington Square Park in NYC and we hid to record, we got a lot of interesting interactions.

Nov 2015

中

Created an intervention and put it in a public space, make people interact with it out of curiosity.

Materials

Planning

Wood work

Building Process

Building Process

Finishing

Instruction outside

We tried to make instruction as simple as possible.

Instruction inside

With reflective surface inside the curtain, we asked people to draw their outlines with this city at this very moment.

Interaction

The mother pulled the rope for this girl to draw outline.

Interaction

People got curious with this huge black-curtain -covered set in the park.

Interaction

Always needed one person to pull the rope so that people can see the front and draw. This design boosted interaction between strangers.

The Inside of the Curtain

Interaction

When one person pulled the rope, actually everyone in front interacted with this set by just seeing the curtain went up.

Interaction

At first, this man was afraid of pulling the rope, cause he didn't know what will happen.

Interaction

Then he found it interested to pull the rope, but he still didn't want to see the front cause he thought it was scary.

Markers

Another Test in Rainy Day

Weather Affected People's Curiosity

Few people stopped and tried to interact.

Interaction

It still had some curiosity power.

Analysis

Time affected what people are doing and how many people and maybe people's emotion.

Analysis

About 40% of people that stopped by this drew on the board.

Analysis

Ethnic group difference may also affected the curiosity level.

Analysis

This data is not clear, mixing with the age level in the location we set up this.

Anaylsis

Although in NYC female people out-numbered male, but with this huge difference, maybe female people are more curious than male.

Our Group!

(from left to right) Catherine Schmidz, Gunjan Raheja and me.