Situational and Contextually-Aware Discovery through Person to Person Mobile & Tangible Interactions

Within the past couple decades, particularly within the United States, populations have shifted from being extremely rural to being urbanized.* This unfamiliar and transient nature of our society often leaves a person experiencing a wide range of emotions as they move from one place to the next. As a greenhorn acquires information regarding their new surroundings and develops a routine rich in comfortable locations and experiences this turmoil subsides, but little innate guidance is provided for a new resident to cope with this highly personal process. Coarse knowledge of the culture of a neighborhood does not provide an easy introduction to the places or people within it. As a result, our problem space explores methods to address these issues post-relocation by considering the emotional, spatial, and social aspects associated with it.

Date: December 2014

Course: CS6750 Human Computer Interaction

Skills: Questionnaires, Concepting, Prototyping, Qualitative Evaluation, Quantitative Evaluation