"A New Loud” is a speculative app for augmenting protests that aims to improve the communication of demonstrations by making them clearer, more visual and more dynamic. My bachelor project explored how to make the varying degrees of urgency and importance of different demands within a protesting crowd more visible. This expansion is visualised through an augmented reality (AR) digital swarm that floats above the protest and encompasses the various individual demands of the protesters. To effectively illustrate this concept, I have developed three apps that demonstrate the creation, education and experiential aspects of this augmentation.
Researching how digital tools could enrich protest
Demonstrators and people interested in the protests
User Story
“As a protester participating in a demonstration,
I want my specific demands to be visualized and integrated into a shared augmented reality (AR) swarm above the protest,
so that the diversity, urgency, and importance of our collective messages are clearly and dynamically communicated to both fellow demonstrators and the public.”
In this application, protesters can input their demands into the digital cloud, effectively populating it with relevant pieces of information.