Datadrones was a public exhibition that used robotic drone technology to visualise real-time data.  In a gallery setting the drones rise and fall in response to data inputs from local and global sources such as movement of people in the gallery, twitter traffic etc.  The data source visualisations changed at different times of the day and allowed the public to interact directly with the visualisation, for example by inputting a twitter ♯. The drones used LED lights to create dynamic, large-scale data landscapes that move and flow as the information changes.


The Datadrones exhibition was designed especially for the Festival of the Mind Sheffield event with Sheffield Robotics, and combined the public fascination with data visualisation and drones in a novel and unique experience.


 

Project dates
2016   

Publications

Exhibition 15th - 22nd september 2016
http://festivalofthemind.group.shef.ac.uk/datadrones/

Research by

Ian Gwilt

Nick Dulake

Owen McAree

Jonathan Aitken

Partners & Stakeholders
The University of Sheffield


Funders
Arts Council England

Festival of the Mind