News Stream

As part of the Bachelor of Design Computing studio course at Sydney University, our final project was to ‘develop a creative data visualization of ABC news content that exploits and utilizes a multi-touch screen’ to be placed in the Foyer of the ABC Centre, Harris Street, Ultimo. 

The multi-touch application we have designed is ‘News Stream’, which innovatively displays ABC news content by encompassing the idea of ‘streaming news’ through a physical representation of a ‘text stream’ made up of ABC news headlines.  Users are able to browse through news content via the headlines to read specific articles in a way that attempts to fulfil the ABC’s primary purpose ‘to inform, educate and entertain Australians.’