Interaction - Bachelor

Mine Now!

Mine Now! is a hands-on experience intended to bring to light the issues of Generative Artificial Intelligence, specifically AI image generation. Creating an environment that will help educate people about the problems of using this easily accessible technology that impacts our creators and artists.

Santiago Barreto Barrera

Mine now!

Why did I design this?

AI, especially Generative AI has become accessible to everyone from around the world. Provide just a simple sentence, and it would spit out something that seemed logical or looked impressive.
However, some of us are taking this technology for granted without understanding the dangers that come with its use, such as ethical and legal issues that arise from AI image generators being trained from stolen artists’ work without attribution or credit.

64% of data from datasets based on copyright material

Ed Newton-Rex, 2024

How is it intended to help?

This is where Mine Now! tries to push this issue carefully. To provide people with the knowledge of the issues of AI image generation and consider their current and future use of the technology, until more is done to address this issue.
Giving them a hands-on experience, complemented by quotes from artists and others, will allow participants to reflect and leave the experience at least considering their use of GAI and hopefully sharing this experience with friends or family to raise awareness.

75% believe society isn’t educated enough on the impacts of GAI.

Self run survey with 8 participants
Photograph of the canvas being used to draw, while the Raspberry Pi and button are located underneath.

Easel Design

To create an environment that reflects artists, an easel was used to handle the drawing canvas, the Raspberry Pi, a button to continue the experience and the camera that is above the user. Additional details, including how to proceed when finishing the drawing experience, are available under the canvas.

The participant is provided with the freedom to draw or sketch anything on the canvas, and when completed, the participant can sign the work at the bottom to make sure it’s their own work.

The button below the canvas is then used to begin the process of “sharing” the participant’s work, but in fact steals the user’s work. The process for taking a photo of the user’s work is done with a camera that is located above the canvas, providing a perfect view to take a photo of the artwork done.
Photo of an iPad that is encased in an artwork portrait cover that shows photos of past artworks done.

Portrait handling the User Interface

Located next to the easel, an iPad enclosed in a portrait-style case handles the rest of the experience by displaying the gallery of work done by previous users, the AI-generated artwork, the AI gallery and the final farewell with reflective quotes.

The UI on the main gallery is designed to follow suit with the old style of a portrait, with its brown background and black and white header and footer. As the design changes to its AI Gallery, it follows a more chaotic colour design that is opposite to the formal design of the original Gallery.

Each phase of the experience uses the UI design to differentiate itself from each other and make it clear about the change in setting.

Video of project

Santiago Barreto Barrera

Creative and dedicated student completing a degree in Design and IT. Santiago is always focused on finding interesting topics to explore for projects. He is always looking to be certain that his designs have purpose and will make a difference.