Data

List of countries in Europe in alphabetical order that represents the low, the middle, and the high
classes with the amount of money received per year.

Countries in Europe Low class Middle class High class

Under 10k 10k-1M Over 1M

Albania 72.7 27.3 0

Andorra

Armenia 85.5 14.5 0

Austria 28.2 68.8 3

Azerbaijan 57.1 42.9 0

Belarus 96.8 3.1 0

Belgium 17.4 79.4 3.2

Bosnia and Herzegovina 68.2 31.8 0

Bulgaria 55.2 44.8 0

Croatia 41.2 58.8 0

Cyprus 23.8 74.9 1.4

Czech Republic 40 9.6 0.3

Denmark 39.5 54.8 5.7

Estonia 40 59.9 0.1

Finland 29 69.5 1.6

France 21.7 73.7 4.6

Georgia 54.7 45.3 0

Germany 29 68.4 2.6

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Greece 20.4 78.8 0.8

Hungary 40 59.9 0

Iceland 20 77.3 2.7

Ireland 20.9 76.9 2.2

Italy 20 77 3

Kazakhstan 93.1 6.9 0.1

Kosovo

Latvia 45 54.9 0

Liechtenstein

Lithuania 47.5 52.4 0

Luxembourg 15 79.5 5.5

Macedonia(FYROM) 69.3 30.7 0

Malta 18.8 80.9 0.3

Moldova 91.8 8.2 0

Montenegro 45 55 0

Netherlands 23.3 74.5 2.2

Norway 19.4 73.1 7.5

Poland 55 44.8 0.1

Portugal 25.8 73.5 0.8

Romania 69.3 30.6 0.1

Russia 93.7 6.2 0.1

San Marino

Serbia 56.8 43.3 0

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 Slovakia 19.8 80.2 0

Slovenia 19.4 80.5 0.1

Spain 17.4 81.4 1.1

Sweden 15.6 77.5 6.9

Switzerland 5.2 84.8 10

Turkey 67 32.8 0.2

Ukraine 97.4 2.5 0

United Kingdom (UK) 30.7 63.7 0

Vatican City (Holy See)

Design

Design 1: The basic design of the tubes full of coins representing the high, the middle and the

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low classes of each country.
The country is chosen from a tablet and the year is selected by a slider.

Design 2. A floor map with the European countries from where two people need to choose a
country and step on it. Only when two countries are selected the installation starts working. We
have two times tubes comparing the high, the middle and the low classes of each
country.(There is a possibility of turning the table in order to explore easily the installation)

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Design 3: The design of using physicalization in the coin movement and LED lighting. Countries
chosen on a tablet will reflect on what the installation portrays. Squares portray coins and LED
lights show the distribution of how much money is in that social class.

Technology
Hardware:
1. Arduino Mega
2. Arduino DC motors converted to linear motion, or pre-made linear actuators
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZm4ZjE-zaU)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-BklfEho0,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29BYh9lcHWQ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij
gHj7ZrIac) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBHvMHJEG-M )
3. Power supply
4. Tubes that would be filled either with water or solid materials
5. Wires
6. Resistors
7. Transistors
8. Silicon to prevent the water from getting on the hardware
9. Speakers for sound effects
10. LED strips for in the water

Physical world map selector floor:

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 11. Pressure sensors or Buttons (In case the map is made from wood) (This could be a
good way to make the pressure sensors:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-a-DIY-Pressure-Plate-Switch-to-Automate-Your-H/
One problem is whether we can create a digital input using smart choosing of resistors.
Because 50 analog inputs is a lot)
12. Pallets as a possibility to create a higher platform for the country selection plate

Digital world selector floor

13. Monitor (In case the map is digital)
14. Tablet (can be used instead of the slider)
15. Slider (Selection throughout the map)

Software:
1. Unity to handle serial communication and interaction to control the parameters (as digital
buttons) or Processing
2. Arduino to send out values for the handle angle to shift the coins up and down
3. Arduino to show the distribution of the different classes in that specific chosen country
(move water/beads tube)
4. App on a table to display input fields for a country/ countries and a visual digital map
5. Would be a pro to use a touchscreen computer, Unity can then be used as a front and
back end system (if ipad is used then maybe making a mac executable would work,
testing is needed)