Presentation for Thesis Reviews

1. BASAK HAZNEDAROGLU
THESIS MIDTERM REVIEW
PROF.CYNTHIA LAWSON 10.12.2010

3. AUDIENCE
urban dwellers using technology in any form

4. co-presence without co-location
losing connection in a connected world

5. What are the social impacts of these
technologies on our everyday interactions in
urban space?

6. PERSONAL&PUBLICDATA
as a content or conversation?
What opportunities lie in urban computing
as a way of communication?

7. Prototype1
EYECONTACT experiment
What has been lost in our physical interactions?

8. FAIL!
freak factor
interface not approachable

9. “space is no longer innocent.” Marcos Novak

10. not after this!

11. How can designed applications subvert
public data we receive via billboards &
advertisements?

12. Prototype 2
LOOK AROUND ARapp experiment
How can I transform public data into conversation?

13. What are the social and cultural
implications of wireless internet use
technology in urban space?

14. 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

15. Yellow chair by Anab Jain
Inviting strangers from street to use her computer
and her wireless

16. Wifiti by Michael Ballard
Letting people change wifi network names

17. Prototype 3
WI-FI experiment
How can I bring diversity into familiar urban
technologies?

18. THANKYOU!
questions?