Fear

The goal of this project was to explore ways of presenting data in a way which created a new emotional context for the data.

In this case the audience was people in the midst of grief or mourning a lost relationship that had already been codified on the social networking service FourSquare. The edges representing these relationships are not deleted, but are instead marked with a user-selectable pejorative, like "ass-hat", or "cakesniffer", and when logged into the service, receives warnings about venues that should not be visited in order to avoid an awkward or painful social interaction.

The hope is to change a negative existing pattern - lurking or stalking online - into an experience that carries less of the negative ramifications of these patterns, while still providing the benefits of awareness and diminished social anxiety.

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