Spontaneous social interaction

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Spontaneous social interaction

• Alexandr Virodov
• Tom Sherman
• Jonathan Schaier

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Problem

• There are screens currently located at various
  points in NJIT
• Almost no people attracted
• Irrelevant or not interesting information
• Lack of interactivity and sociality

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Interface

• Three parts
• Interesting information
• List of persons sharing similar interests
• Graph of connected people
• Like MySpace or FaceBook

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Interesting information

• Can be anything of an interest
• Movie trailers
• Game trailers
• Youtube videos
• Classifieds
• NJIT information
• The main purpose is to attract the person to the
  screen

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Personal profile

• The information displayed is based on the
  personal profile
• Submitted on the backend
• May be managed with the mobile device
• Improved when user expresses their opinion about
  the presented information
• Personal profile contains
• Name
• Picture (optional)
• Email / phone number (not shared, internal)
• Freeform text

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People with similar interests

• The interface will display people who share
  interest to the displayed information
• Users who are nearby will be highlighted. This
  will increase the probability of starting a
  social interaction
• It is possible to send a message to the user
  (email or sms) from the screen
• Add the user to list of friends (Authorization)

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Graph of connected people

• Shows connections between registered users
• Highlight users that are in close proximity
• Useful if two people share a friend may be used
  as a trigger for social interaction

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Non-interactive image wall

• Each time the user starts to interact with the
  screen, if there is a user with shared interests,
  there will be some connection between displays

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Scenario 1

• Smith walks by a screen on his way to buy lunch
• He sees a video game trailer that interests him
  so he starts to interact with the screen
• He notices that John shares same interest, and he
  is nearby.
• Smith sends message to John to meet him for lunch
• John receives the message and meets Smith

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Scenario 2

• Alice walks by the screen and sees that NJIT
  advertises an event which is of interest to her
• She clicks on the screen and selects the option
  Send this to my phone
• While she does that, she notices that there are
  stars and lines shooting from her screen towards
  someone
• She notices John interacting with the other
  screen
• She approaches John and they schedule to go to
  the event together

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System architecture
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Design Meetings

• Monday, January 28
• Initial idea targeted advertising
• Concept of the user interface
• Wednesday, January 30 cancelled
• Monday, February 4
• Finalizing the location
• Presenting the concept and gathering feedback
• Wednesday, February 6 - cancelled

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Design Meetings

• Monday, February 11
• Revised the concept based on last week feedback
• Worked out additional visual enhancements
• Thursday, February 14
• Applied the visual enhancements to the 3D model
• Discussed the interface

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Meeting notes
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Meeting notes
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Meeting notes
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Questions