My Utopian Home By: Lynray Barends, Zola Mahlaza & Grace Jegede.

My Utopian HomeBy: Lynray Barends, Zola Mahlaza & Grace Jegede

Visualisation Motivation

People move to highly urbanized areas for employment/studies/relaxation

But struggle to find good accommodation

We are proposing a visualized way of finding accommodation

What people consider:

Affordable Safe close to their work or study place

Related Works

1. Property24

List formatted data

Not relative to a workplace

2. Gumtree

List formatted

Site has many other features

No map provided

Related Works

3. www.spaceage.co.za: Data analysis - South African crime stats by Vusi Nkomo

http://goo.gl/MY3bxX

Crime statistics on a provincial level

Not linked to finding accommodation

Important factors:

Affordability - Price Safety - crime rate Distance to work place/school - Proximity to

X

Prototype 1

1.1 Price and Distance Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a

2km radius from place x?

2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?

3. Where is place x on the map?

Prototype 1

1.2 Bar graph Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a

2km radius from place x?

2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?

3. Where is place x on the map?

Prototype 1

1.3 Safety Visual Queries Which apartments are within a

2km radius from place x?

How safe is the area where I will be living?

Where is place x on the map?

Prototype 2

1.1 Dart Board Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a

2km radius from place x?

2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?

3. How safe is the area where I will be living?

Prototype 2

1.2 Colour Visual Queries1. Which apartments are within a

2km radius from place x?

2. Which of the apartments is the cheapest?

3. How safe is the area where I will be living?

Prototype 1 Analysis• Map to show relative

positions• Bar graph to easily

compare price ‘heights’• Colour over textures for

crime rate of whole areas(avoid clash with map ‘texture’)

Prototype 2 Analysis

• Using colours green, yellow, red for increasing crime rates

• Distance represented by radius x km

• Occlusion, 2.d, colour intensities for ‘closeness’

Data Sources

Map :Google Maps

Prices: Property24

Distance: user input

Crime: www.crimestats.com

Crime: Western cape government site

find more on: www.inavigate.com

Design 1: Final Design 2: Final

Thank you!