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This interactive experience is a part of the project (Phase 3) developed within the Final Synthesis
Design Studio of the Communication Design Faculty at Politecnico di Milano.
It is an over populated & technologically advanced metropolis in China. This research aims to
analyze and engage the western public about complex and controversial social issues of facial
recognition through the analysis of data contents being applied on City X.
In
Phase 2
of this project, the findings demonstrated that in western countries, such as the
United States and Italy,
Privacy
is the most important consideration. While in eastern countries,
such as China,
Convenience
is the word they talked most about in face recognition. It is curious
to know why people in China thinks of convenience regarding face recognition applications, and
why such devices are becoming so popular in China day by day.
China is the world's most populous country with 1.392 billion people, compared with 327 million
in the United States and 144.5 million in Russia. A huge population of 18.20% might be one of the
reasons that people in China need advanced technologies like facial recognition in their daily life,
for efficiency. There might be other reasons too.
In this
Phase 3
, we designed a behavioral map of a person's daily activity line to show normal
scenarios/applications of facial recognition devices being applied in China’s City X. Also, we
collected
media articles
from Baidu and
personal comments
from Weibo of different attitudes
towards this issue. This phase will help us to record responses of western people’s attitude and
their perception towards facial recognition applications on daily activity basis.
Are you going to embrace it?
Or counteract it?
Discover Phase 2 here!
1.392
Billion
327
Million
144.5
Million
18.20%
1.92%
4.29%
World Population
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