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.