When I initially started brainstorming about this project, I began thinking about friends and relatives who live outside of the New York area. I briefly analyzed how often I see them and I began to realize that although I might not talk them regularly either offline or online, the amount of hours we spend together …
February 2012 archive
Feb 28
Social Media Project – Teratags
Teratags are the final iteration of the social media project where I continued with the idea of hashtags physically located in a specific place. Here is a definition: A Twitter hashtag located in a physical space so as to connect an object, place or happening to the digital world allowing for a streamlined organized conversation to …
Feb 27
Social media interaction
Hello Bike is the name of a serial of my social media bike ideas. It will allow riders to do simple communication with each-other with their bikes. My original idea was very simple. It is exactly what the top image shows: a rider will says Hello to everyone when he is through by. That looks like ridiculous, but if it is existed, it will make our social become more …
Feb 23
Interaction over distance Pt2 FEELING presence
We can experience distance through touching, feeling, remembering. We affiliate ppl with certain colors, smells, objects. The future of communication will need to include elements of real personalized touch and feel.
Feb 23
Scribbit 1.0 – Social Network Project
I’ve posted to my blog my Scribbit Social Network wireframes/ video mock up. Click here to go there now.
Feb 23
Project 3: moveSpider 1.0 – Brainstorming
My project idea for this final project is to return to the Greed Spider, the first idea I explored in the beginning of the semester but rather than have the spider be controlled by simply me or sensors that are triggered by “sudden movement”, I want to have the spider be controlled by different users …
Feb 23
Interaction over distance PT 1 / SEEING PRESENCE ( Feeling Presence is Pt 2 );
Ask anyone, like your parents or maybe your grandparents if your parents happen to be of the “progressive type” and they will tell you that communication / interaction over distance has gotten wayyyyy much easier. My parents use Skype to talk to their friends in distant lands….My parents don’t really speak English…but they can speak …
Feb 20
Response to Social Media Articles – Conor Russomanno
This piece is a response to the following articles: Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities by Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Xiaodan Song, and Belle Tseng Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet – and Keep Google Out by Fred Vogelstein Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us, by Bill …
Feb 20
Social Media Project – Physical Hashtags_Research/Sketching
In researching about social media and what direction it is likely to go in, i came across this quote: “The blending of the offline and online world for consumers will drive the biggest change in how content is shared over the next few years,” said David Hargreaves, CEO, Beyond (article). I think this quote is …
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