Drowning Hours
MIT Media Lab｜Creative Tech｜Instructor: Zach Lieberman｜2021
In a world filled with distractions like TikTok, it's easy to lose track of time and become absorbed for hours. Traditional time displays on phones and watches are too neutral to remind us of time's continuous passage. We need a dynamic way to represent time that emphasizes its elapsing, creating a sense of urgency to prevent us from subconsciously ignoring its flow.
To address this, I've transformed time into a blob that grows increasingly restless as the current hour draws to a close, giving users a clearer sense of when "the current hour is over." To maintain functionality, a Roman numeral indicates the current hour, positioned like on a traditional clock. Starting from 1 instead of 0, it signifies "the (_)th hour of the day," intentionally detaching from conventional clock perception. The numeral gradually sinks into the blob, symbolizing "dying."
面对越来越多的电子干扰（抖音、小红书等），我们常常会失去对时间的追踪，沉迷于这些娱乐形式数小时之久。虽然手机或手表能显示时间，但它是中性的，无法有效提醒我们时间正在流逝。我们需要一种新的显示方式来强调“流逝”的概念，以创造一种紧迫感，防止我们在潜意识中对浪费时间视而不见。
在这个设计里，我尝试将时间表示为一团看似有生命的不规则形状，随着当前小时临近结束，它会变得愈发躁动。希望用这种视觉呈现让人清晰地感知到“当前的小时快要结束”。此外，为了保留报时功能，上面仍会显示一个当前是几点的罗马数字，其位置与传统时钟相似。然而，它是从1而非0开始，表示“这是一天中的第(_)个小时”，意在和普通的时钟区分。该数字会逐渐下沉，象征着当前小时的消失。
Interstellar Trampoline
Harvard GSD｜Creative Tech｜2019
In this quick project, I explored one of the most intriguing aspects of computational design: setting certain constraints and allowing the computer to generate unpredictable outcomes. This approach leads to fascinating results where randomness and internal consistency coexist.
Tangible Rhythm
Harvard GSD｜Creative Tech｜2019
Most music visualizations concentrate on the pitch and intensity of the music. However, the performer’s movements are also a significant indicator of musical expression and are closely tied to the rhythm of the music. This project aims to explore innovative methods for visualizing the motion data of music performers.
大多数音乐可视化作品侧重于音乐的音高和强度。然而，表演者的动作同样和音乐表达密切相关。该项目旨在探索可视化音乐表演者动作数据的新方法。
Breathing NYC
MIT SA+P｜Data Viz｜2020
This visualization explores the concentration of pick-up and drop-off locations for Uber in New York, as well as the changing patterns of Uber usage frequency over time. Together, these elements reflect the underlying connectivity of the city and showcase the diurnal rhythms of urban life from a particular perspective.
该可视化探索了纽约Uber上下客地点的集中度和之间的连接，以及Uber使用频率随时间的变化模式。这两个要素共同反映了纽约市内在的连接性，从一个切面展现了城市运行的昼夜节律。
Airbnb & Affordability
MIT SA+P｜Data Viz｜2020
The impact of Airbnb on local housing affordability has sparked debate. Studies show that Airbnb's growth reduces housing stock and drives up prices, harming affordability. For example, from 2011 to 2017, nearly 183,000 affordable housing units in New York City—about 40% of the total—shifted to Airbnb rentals.
However, not all Airbnb units are effectively utilized. Market overexpansion has led to supply exceeding actual demand, resulting in high vacancy rates for Airbnb units as the market stabilizes.
Redistributing these vacant Airbnb units back into the affordable housing stock could be highly beneficial. Policymakers and urban planners need to identify areas with both high Airbnb vacancy rates and low housing affordability. This swipe map visualizes affordability and vacancy together, enabling easy identification of overlapping zones to inform better policymaking.
Airbnb经济对当地住房负担能力的影响引发了热烈的讨论。许多研究表明，Airbnb市场的增长确实对住房负担能力产生了消极影响，主要表现在减少了可用住房数量并抬高了房价。例如，在2011年至2017年期间，纽约市几乎有183,000个可负担住房单位，约占总数的40%，转移到了Airbnb市场中。
然而，并不是所有的Airbnb单元都得到了充分利用。市场的热潮吸引了超出实际需要的需求，当热潮褪去后，纽约市的Airbnb单元出现了极高的空置率。
将这些空置的Airbnb单元重新纳入可负担住房供应将会带来显著的好处。政策制定者和城市规划者需要找出高Airbnb空置率与低住房负担能力相交叉的区域。这个滑动地图将住房负担能力和空置情况进行可视化，便于识别重叠区域，从而作为政策制定的参考。