THESIS PROTOTYPES CYNTHIA LAWSON

BASAK HAZNEDAROGLU

09.30.2010

technology

urban space people

urban space technology

social interaction

creating a second skin

interaction map

mobile phone

objects books,bench

natural elements

trees, squirrels

E readers iPads

people staring talking

laptops

data as a content or conversation?

data data

Not after this! How can I turn this data into conversation?

SOCIAL LIFE OF WIRELESS URBAN SPACE How technology influencing privatism and

participation at the same time? Impacts of wireless Internet use on urban

public spaces?

Explore the technology and wifi and how it is related to social interaction and how it influences the way we

use public space

Explore how it is shaping human behavior in urban space

Majority of wi-fi users used their wireless Internet connection to communicate with social ties that were

not physically present (66%)

Decline in exposure to diversity of opinion or issues tend to be culturally and ideologically homogeneous

Put the individual into thick of things!

Yellow chair project by Anab Jain

Inviting strangers from street to use her computer and its wireless open access not only as an access to the internet but

to read or to listen to her "Today's Offer" in the "shared folder"

a 'real world blog space' a territory for conversation between neighbours

eye contact experiment forcing people to stare and communicate

what’s mine is yours experiment Results were mostly revolved around SEXUALITY!

follower/fan/stalker tags experiment carry the familiar networks into unfamiliar zones and create a conversation

porte parole by Krzysztof Wodiczko forcing communication through immigrants’ narratives

NEXT STEPS

What are the social and cultural implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environment?

What opportunities lie to use urban computing as a way of communication?

Exploring ways to force communication through personal and public data

Proposing the idea of socialization through urban spaces and focusing on miscommunications maybe?

Forcing the individual to get out of the familiar networks to bring more diversity