Going around and measuring the levels of air pollution in your city seems to me an exciting thing to do. However, not being a scientist, I wonder for how long those numbers will keep my attention and, even more important – how can that surveying endeavour become an engaging activity for a greater group of city people?
Those numbers needed a translation into a language that would be both, intuitively understandable for a large group of people, and fun to read.

Using videogame as medium promised to suit those requirements and show the measurements in great detail.
Therefore, I made a small game that offers a brief, but nevertheless challenging interaction with the environment on a virtual level. It is an entertaining way of checking conditions, and gives a better sense of what those conditions are like than a mere glance at a status bar can indicate.

Neighbourhood Satellites is a Masters Thesis project by Myriel Milicevic. Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, 2005 – advisors Ralph Ammer and Yaniv Steiner.

- This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

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