background information :
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.