This document contains a student's project proposal for an interactive installation art piece on water pollution in urban areas in Malaysia. The proposal includes background research on water pollution sources in Malaysia, aims to create awareness and change attitudes. The concept involves an installation that uses motion sensors and LED lights to provide information on water pollution effects. The student outlines methodologies, content development, and technical specifications. The proposal also includes a timeline, budget, and flow chart. The goal is to educate the public on water pollution issues in an immersive experience.

1. Muhammad Afif bin Aziz
1091100132
Digital Media Design 1
13 September 2012

2. Project Proposal

3. Research Topic
Water Pollution in Urban Area
Title
“Water, One of The Important Needs in Life”
Background Research
Malaysia, one of the countries in the world whom has the problem in the urban
area in terms of water pollution. Most of this problem happened due to the
excessive waste from the factory has been poured out into the river. For
example, the paper making industry, it requires poisonous chemical substances
in the processing stage. The excessive waste of the chemicals have been
poured into the river, so, most of the river in Malaysia have been polluted with
these dangerous chemical.
Aim and Objective
i) To motivate people’s attitude in terms of handling the rubbish
ii) To create awareness to the people in the urban area
Motivation
As we all know, water is one of the most virtue things for human to survive and
life. Without water, we cannot live in the peaceful environment. I want to make
more research on this topic as water pollution is one of the most problems in the
urban area or city. So, if we love our earth to be last long, we should being
serious on this issue.

4. Ideation and Concept
My concept regarding this topic is more onto effects of water pollution to
human. I plan to make an interactive installation art for my output.
Review, Analysis and Precedent Studies
One of the example of paper factory Waste product/chemical from the
release chemical in the river farm poured into the river
Design Approach
Interactive Installation Art

5. Research & Analysis

6. Research Material 1.1
Water pollution is caused by point and non-point sources. Point sources include
sewage treatment plants, manufacturing and agro-based industries and animal
farms. Non-point sources are defined as diffused sources such as agricultural
activities and surface runoffs.
Bod Pollution Load
Domestic sewage discharge, in the form of treated sewage and partially treated
sewage, remained the largest contributor of organic pollution load with an
estimated biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) load of 883,391.08 kg/day. The
estimated BOD loading contributed by other major sectors were agro-based and
manufacturing industries (76,790.77 kg/day) and pig farming (213,215.00 kg/day).
Table 6.1 indicates the total BOD load in kg/day discharged from sewage
treatment plants throughout Malaysia in 2006.

7. Research Material 1.2
Government has already made campaigns in order to create awareness
regarding water pollution issue. Below is the example of flyer that the
government distribute to the people as the awareness campaign.
These are the example of flyer from the government campaign in order
to create awareness to the people regarding this issue. But, is this way
of campaign give hard impacts to the people? Think.

8. Methodology 1 – Survey

9. Methodology 2 – Observation
Rubbish found by the roadside
cause by the human attitude, Another human attitude :
simple throw the rubbish Simply throw rubbish in
the drain. When raining, the
rubbish will flow into the river
and polluted the river

10. Idea Development

11. At default, the installation will
When the user enter the room, the kinect
not be activated. If no one in
sensor will detect the present of motion.
the area/room, nothing will
Then, the sensor trigger the LED lights
happened. No sound, no
along the pathway to be switch on and
lights, until the
the ambiance sound starts to play as LED
user approach the door of
the lights on. Then, to access the info,
the installation.
the user need to put their right hand onto
the touch screen monitor and the
adventure begin. Users are free to
access any data in the monitor.

12. Users can take time as long as they want to be inside the room.
Then, when the uses go out from the room, once again the sensor
will detect the motion and switch off the LED lights and waiting for
the next user to come in. The process is repeated.

13. Contextual Studies

14. Contextual Studies
Social Context
• Water pollution is the major problem involve the social and human.
• Involve in human attitude
Political Context
• Involve government in terms of solving and taking action process
• Creating awareness

15. Content Development

16. Content Development 1
Video, Montage, Animation & Effects
Adobe Flash
Camtasia Studio
Adobe Premier
Windows Movie Maker
Processing
Photo, Illustration & Image Editing
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Motion Sensor
Windows SDK

17. Content Development 2
As we can see on both layout, the installation is like a room filled with lots of
information regarding water pollution. The use of technology is applied to
deliver the information. As we can see, the use of LED lights along the pathway
give the new feel and touch when people entering the area. In addition, the
present of ambiance sounds makes the user feel calm and ready to access or
read the information in the screen. The use of touch screen monitor is better as
it is more user friendly compare to using mouse as a cursor.

18. Content Development 3
The basic setup of the Arduino

19. Content Development 4

20. Functional Specification Worksheet
Description : Installation + Interactivity + Informational Design
Media Elements/Content :
Text : Information on the screen are in the form of text
Images/Graphics : The data/raw materials from the data collection is
simplified and compile
Video : The scenery of the research location/area
Animation : Appear on the screen (website-based)
Sound : Ambiance sound is played throughout the journey
Navigation & Icons : Fully utilize in the website-based interactivity

21. Project Timeline

22. Budget

23. Flow Chart

24. Final Synopsis

26. Video Teaser