Part 2 of 3
For my final project in Public Interfaces, co-taught by Jake Barton and Ian Curry from Local Projects, I worked to create an engaging public interface for my imaginary client of the New York Yankees. In my previous post, I highlighted the iPhone app aspect of the experience.
But there’s much more to this experience, and where it truly becomes a public interface, in the different ways that Yankees could leverage the data being created and collected by their fans. For instance, photos from today’s game could be displayed on the scoreboard in between innings, providing a comprehensive view of today’s game from all angles of the park.
Moreover, by knowing where fans are sitting, engaging interactive experiences could be created with specific seats. For instance, the Yankees often display the number of HRs a Yankee has hit at home over the course of the season. But rather than just displaying that as a flat number, what if fans in the seats in a player’s HRs could be notified of the significance of their seat, and asked to create an info-graphic with their fellow fans. Similarly, if a player comes to bat who has the furthest HR in the history of the stadium, its one thing to tell the distance, its quite another to actually see exactly where it landed in the stadium.
