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What is the main purpose?? 01 to provide/bring back some analog choices that we don't have in current cellphone-communication process. 02 to put an emphasis on emotional needs/actual needs, try to propose some potential solutions to these user's needs, see if the technology can provide any form of help instead of constrain. What is the requirement for my project to be successful? 01 user study....I need more people's real life experiences to tell what are the most common seen emotional needs 02 prototype..... to make my project/proposal easier to understand by providing the visual of the scenarios. (actual implementation? video? animation?) 03 research....research for precedents that related to technology that help resolve human(emotional needs or non-emotional needs) needs, also research on how technology shape people's behavior and form social protocol ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// some thoughts for the experiments : 01...

might be able to submit my paper to http://www.aec.at/en/prix/index.asp http://isea2008.org/page/20/ http://mobilehci2008.telin.nl/ http://www.hcii2009.org/ http://hft2008.org/ some interesting links http://future-of-mobile.com/ http://wordpress.com/tag/mobile-conference-calling/ http://www.hcii2009.org/ http://www.rhizome.org/

Mobile Awkwardness Jason Tseng Niplus777@gmail.com Abstract In this paper I will discuss the pervasive awkwardness and tensions brought by the omnipresent usage of mobile phone, and propose some simple solutions to these phenomena. As the technology progressing, mobile phone developers tend to integrate more and more new features and functions such as camera, touch screen, mp3 players or the capability to connect to internet, into current cell-phone, but very few efforts were put into reviewing the psychology aspect of the users and the emerging and existed emotional needs caused by the relatively new form of communication. Although there are lots of researches focusing on the social phenomena and social impacts brought by mobile phone, the results seem to have very few influences upon the development of cell-phone. My intention here is to highlight the most often seen emotional needs pervading in modern communicational process, mainly focusing on the process of “using cell phone to ta...

conferences CHI2008(?) DIS(design interaction system)? ACM SIGGRAPH ISEA(?) NIME(new interfaces for musical expression) download final paper template main quetion Can we integrate more human touch in the digital-form interaction to alleviate the anxiety level brought by the limited options provided by current mobile phone ? Instead of providing more and more "purpose-oriented functions", can mobile itself also deal with our "emotional needs while using it "?

The tensions/awkwardnesses of the cell-phone communication are so ubiquitous but often being ignored or tolerated. People tend to bear with the anxious and awkward experiences underline the belief that the device is a can't-live-without gadget. By stimulating/hight-lighting the often seen experiences may help people's awareness of how our behavior been shaped and constrained by the form of current cell-phone communication. often-seen examples: 01 An incoming call you don't want to pick up, but don't really know how to make it mute without directly reject the call, which considered impolite. The continue ringing phone not only make you feel awkward but also create intension between you and your surrounding. problem A lot of people don't really know how to use their cell-phone B There should be more options to reject a call 02 In an inappropriate situation (meeting/interview/class/funeral/wedding/temple..etc), your phone rings and you anxiously want to find it, but i...

While pervasive conveniences are taken for granted or even being considered necessary, how far should convenience goes? Are we considering/suggesting technology as part of human revolution? reference links http://wearcam.org/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://www.sics.se/humle/projects/persona/web/workshop/abstracts.html http://wearcam.org/tv04/hyper-textual_ontology.htm http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=jEvzjaEoKds&feature=related The middle man/good buddy/secretary/personal trainer/big brother/operator/doorman/ As one of our closest "friend", instead of providing simple, rigid form of communication, can the mobile-phone provide something useful to help improving/refining our way to communicate with others? by giving the cell-phone more human feature/response functions, can it comfort/ease the intense form of human-to-human interaction? Can some of the other/traditional forms of communication provide something useful to the cell-phone one? reference li...