STELLA SPEZIALI
PORTFOLIO | 2017-2025

NOTIFICATIONS

Hidden behind the aspect of tiny vibrations and audible alarms, notifications control us! On one side, notifications make us feel the urge to keep receiving immediate gratification, and on the other side, we are incessantly being interrupted by their call for attention. This essay, which is my bachelor thesis at ECAL, investigates the mechanism of notification, especially the one related to smartphones.

On the 2 of November 2016, I started collecting all kinds of notifications and pop-up messages I was receiving on my Android phone. I stopped this collection on the 3 of February 2017. During this period I developed a website where 26'017 notifications were collected. Notifications History, which is an Android application, allowed me to save an XML file and then create a database of the notifications I was receiving every day.
2017
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Bachelor thesis, Data Visualisation, Graphic Design, Print Design 

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A HERO'S RETURN – AI-GENERATED INSTALLATION VOLUMETRIC CAPTURE –  

HAPPILY EVER AFTER – DIGITAL HUMAN AND AVATAR FOR THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE –

ZANGEZI – DIGITAL HUMANS REAL-TIME VISUALS THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE –

THREE – LIVE VISUAL DESIGN PROJECTION MAPPING MOTION CAPTURE TECHNICIAN –

NEBULOSUS – LIGHT MIST INSTALLATION –  

DIGITAL HUMANS – RESEARCH –  

UMBRELLA PROJECT – IMMERSIVE SPATIAL AUDIO SPATIAL AUGMENTED REALITY MULTI-USER INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION  –  

ALTERED PERCEPTIONS –  MASTER PROJECT –  

TASTE LAB – VIRTUAL REALITY INSTALLATION –  

CLOUD SHADOWS – VIDEO INSTALLATION –    

TANGIBLES WORLD – VIRTUAL REALITY INSTALLATION –  

NOTIFICATIONS – BACHELOR PROJECT –  

EYE DROP – VIRTUAL REALITY INTERACTIVE OBJECT –