While I was thinking about my graduation I
first started to think about a problem. I made a
list of the most bothering things in my life and
I discovered and experienced that I am really
annoyed with people who text, check instagram
and do other things done on a smartphone, while
we are in the same social environment, talking or
discussing something. The scenario then be, one
person on the smartphone doing something and
the other person sits silently till his/her friend
is done with checking instagram and stares
absently or keeps on talking and assume that his/
her friend has been listening to him/her to whole
time. Both scenarios end up in no connection
between two person but a connection between a
person and a phone but one person is stays out
alone, hoping to have a real life conversation with
a real alive person sitting next to him/her. After
realizing that this really is a problem I face in
life, I decided to make a research about this and
learned that they have already a verb assigned for
this action which is “phubbing”. In this project,
I am thinking of doing a smartphone application.
First I thought it wouldn’t be appropriate to do a
smartphone app for stopping using smartphone.
But then I thought, what would stop a person
who is with his/her phone 24/7. I can only warn
people about phubbing via smartphone. So I am
thinking of doing an application which will be a
default program in every smartphone, and when
someone is phubbing around his/her friend,
since they are in the same wireless network, the
phubbed one would nudge the phubber and the
phubber’s front camera will turn on and with
a fatce detection there will be warnings about
phubbing on his/ her face while he/she moves
around. Maybe some tears of typography will
flow or his/her hair would turn into words such
as “look around!” or “stop phubbing!”, which
would end up the phubber to leave the phone
aside and be in the real moment. By realizing
this project the problem of being “phubbed” wil
be adressed and people wil have awareness that
even they think they are not doing it, they actually
are doing it, it is the disease of this century.
My challenges will be analyzing people around
me doing this, making research about this issue
and learning the pscyhological side of it, designing
an interface for the app and learning how to
code an application like this. By working on this
project, I will gain the priviledge of launching
a product like this, learning how to create a
smartphone application and touching a problem
I am irretated.