The Making of Sixty-Nine Days of Close Encounters at the Science Gallery

Citation: Wouter Van den Broeck, Marco Quaggiotto, Lorenzo Isella, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto; The Making of Sixty-Nine Days of Close Encounters at the Science Gallery. Leonardo 2012; 45 (3): 285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00377

In their 2012 article ‘The Making of Sixty-Nine Days of Close Encounters at the Science Gallery’, Van den Broeck et al. document the creation of a large-scale interactive exhibition at Science Gallery Dublin that visualised social interactions using real-time data.

The SocioPatterns sensing platform uses wearable electronic badges to sense close-range proximity among individuals. It was used in an experiential exhibit that simulated a virtual epidemic among the visitors of the INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY exhibition in the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. The collected data was used to generate a high-resolution visualization that illustrates the variation in contact activity over the course of the exhibition.