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The Sidewalk Ballet
in the Age of Social Distancing
How did COVID-19 change the ways in which people use and perceive New York City?
Sharon Yavo Ayalon, Cheng Gong, Harrison Yu, Ilan Mandel, Wendy Ju
The Future Automation Lab, Cornell Tech
We call those interviews
Walkie-Talkies.
we developed a computer-based method to conduct walking interviews and visualize them through an interactive geospatial map.
when walking in the street and talking to people was not an option,
To capture the experience of being in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic,
Our visualization combines the route taken by the interviewee with the video images and the audio narration, all presented in sync.
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