THESIS MIDTERM REVIEW PROF.CYNTHIA LAWSON

BASAK HAZNEDAROGLU

10.12.2010

AUDIENCE urban dwellers using technology in any form

co-presence without co-location

losing connection in a connected world

What are the social impacts of these technologies on our everyday interactions in

urban space?

PERSONAL&PUBLICDATA as a content or conversation?

What opportunities lie in urban computing as a way of communication?

Prototype1 EYECONTACT experiment

What has been lost in our physical interactions?

FAIL! freak factor

interface not approachable

“space is no longer innocent.” Marcos Novak

not after this!

How can designed applications subvert public data we receive via billboards &

advertisements?

Prototype 2 LOOK AROUND ARapp experiment

How can I transform public data into conversation?

What are the social and cultural implications of wireless internet use

technology in urban space?

SOCIAL LIFE OF WIRELESS URBAN SPACE

Majority of wi-fi users used their wireless Internet connection to communicate with social ties that were not physically present

(66%)

Culturally and ideologically homogeneous

Yellow chair by Anab Jain

Inviting strangers from street to use her computer and her wireless

Wifiti by Michael Ballard

Letting people change wifi network names

Prototype 3 WI-FI experiment

How can I bring diversity into familiar urban technologies?

THANKYOU! questions?