week 3 - Project Idea 1

Who Am I What I do Who Are You

I'm not so clear yet about what application i will make, but there is something there interests me, that is how do we perceive ourselves and how others perceive ourselves. I envision this could come out a mobile/web social app.

Things in my head
I always feel mobile phone is even closer to me than any other digital devices that i use, tv, computer, camera, mp3 player, clock, etc. It is such a personal and social thing, much more than a digital device. It's one of three things i always keep with me when i go out(the other two are wallet and key chain). I use it to talk to my family thousands of miles away, talk to friends, talk to people i want/need to contact, also being contacted by people i dont know yet. I keep it on all the time, even when i'm off at night. I use it to find ways when i first time travel to some places, either by a GPS app on my phone or just simply call a friend! It keeps all my contacts, which i have no idea at all. It alarms me at propriate time. It tells me time and date. It helps me do calculations. It helps me remember some numbers or texts. It's representing me at many times. I assume this is true for many other people.

Who am I is not a very easy question to answer, especially now. We are keeping a lot more identificaions than before, other than name, SS#, passport#, student ID, driver license#, home/work phone#, etc these traditional identifications, now we have email address, personal website url, flickr url, delicious url, youtube account, online bank account, credit card#, cell phone#, IM name, blog url, social network website account and many many others. To answer the question "who am I", we usually need to present those of our identifications in some way.

Other than those identifications, you also identify yourself via what you do. For example, you take photograph, you play yoga, you write articles, you program, you have many ideas that others never thought about, you tell funny stories, etc.

So people are interest in who you are and what you do. But people may have different perceptions of who you are or what you do from what you think. For example, you may think
you are a funny person, but others may think your funny stories always suck.

However, people are interested in who you are and what you do. Some people look for something in common, while others look for something totally different.


The App
So in terms of an application, I'm thinking of some application combined with cell phone and web. You have an online identity in a social network website, where you have some visual representations of what you think of and what others think of who you are and what you do, also you have these information synchrinized with your mobile phone, others physically near you can retrieve these info via bluetooth or other proper technique, so that both of you can connect offline or online.