Movement Map: 1hr in Front of the TV

Cat starts at one heat source..

Cat moves to next heat source.

Cat goes out of the room for food

Movement Map: 1hr in Front of the TV by the_bumblebee.

A visual summary of my son, daughter and cat's movements over a period of an hour - Christmas '06.

For those that want to know specifics:
I used a marked-out equally-spaced grid in masking tape and filmed them moving via video across the grid for an hour. I then reviewed the video and plotted their movements on each minute of the video's timecode onto a 'room map' with corresponsing grid. A curious information graphic if nothing else..

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Little Rapowke says:

nice idea! i love it, especially the cat! ;)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

ixycreativity says:

:) nice. very good idea
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Thanks for the comments :) The cat's story is one of moving from heat source to heat source and then food. It starts at the heat source -radiator- behind the armchair and then moves over (right) towards the french window where the sun's shining through. It then moves off towards it's food outside of the room - for the diagram's sake this shows it lingering by the door (contrary to the way it looks I didn't lock them in) :-) I liked the little underlying micro narratives that you could take from the map - much like Denis Wood's 'Pumpkin Map'.

I got the idea from a French Sociologist who did mapped the movements of one of his students for a whole year in Paris in the 50's.. He was shocked to see the narrowness of her existence and the 3x key points that she kept returning to..

See this link for more:
mooonriver.blogspot.com/2006/11/theory-of-dri ve.html
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jonathanpberger says:

Cool, yr living room seems very active. There's no sense of when someone's at rest or when they're wandering though. Maybe the size of the dot could indicate amt of time spent in that location?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

hotdoughnutsnow says:

Reminds me of "Kitchen Stories" (2003):
www.imdb.com/title/tt0323872/
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

endsupdrivel says:

wicked.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Like the idea of the dot size to show linger time - nice idea..

Liked 'Kitchen Stories' too -saw it a while back.. So that's why Swedish kitchen design is so pernickety eh? Those people went to incredible lengths to understand how people use rooms and facilities!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

simonburgs says:

mate, please can you remember the name of that French Sociologist? im all googled out of ideas to find it.
simon.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Try: Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe (1918-1998). He was involved with loads of stuff relating to space / how folks use it etc..

Found something else he had been involved with, something to do with charting 'geospacial' landscape features from aerial photography..

www.aggregat456.com/2006/07/images-from-chomb art-de-lauwe...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

This is getting a little weird now..

Nearly 13,000 people have viewed this one image as I write..

I'd be paying thousands for that sort of attention on TV!

Delighted that people find it interesting..
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Breyten Ernsting says:

Heh, this was on kottke.org or on boingboing a few days ago. I forgot which one ;)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

mindspillage says:

kottke.org, which is how I found it. Cool idea. I'm surprised there was so much movement!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Thanks for the comments folks, delighted and amazed to see it being discussed and highlighted like that!

As for the movements - candy/cake-fuelled/TV-addled kids and sitting still (for any length of time) don't really fit comfortably in the same sentence ;-)

Add in the cat who's two big wants are heat and food and you can see how even only an hour generates much movement in this context..
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

kayleighwilson says:

This is great! Very interesting. It's perfect for a map project I'm doing if you don't mind me including it as an example?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

goocy says:

found on soup.io, real interesting theory
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

raven15angel says:

I think this is really cool and I was wondering if you used any computer programs to help you do this whole thing.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Only really used some video stuff to look the original footage over.. Then plotting it was a step by step mapping scenario (see above explanation at top) which was visualised in Adobe Illustrator. Thanks for the comment :-)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

El Gran Heroe Americano says:

Cool.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

carriedcarpet says:

This is fantastic - I tried doing something at uni to plot different activities (like making a cup of tea) on a long exposure by getting someone to carry lights around. Only one of the photos came out well - I wish i'd seen this though!

(will post the image so you can see just how good and useful yours would be for architectural research!)
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Thanks again folks for the comments.. All read through and mulled-on.. You may be interested in my latest project which is an interactive showing a set of a/v urban walking experiences in Worcester (UK) City Centre. I've got some prototype visuals on P1 of my Flickr pages - am still working with participants at the time of writing so no final stuff visible as yet - be interested in comments though if you've a mo'..
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

the_bumblebee says:

Just an update on activities. The 'Emotimaping' projects I'm developing are getting more formalised. It's still basically looking at people's movements but also how they're 'reacting' and 'feeling' to various urban places [psychogeography]. If you're curious then take a look at the 'South Worcestershire Schools Emotimap Project' - presently on my Flickr Page 1..
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Yateski says:

I love this. I especially like that the cat paces in and out and sits by warm things. Great graphic.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Tim Graham says:

You seem to spend more time with Libby and with the cat than you do with Tom :)
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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