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            Our conclusion post interrogation is that each group stands to benefit from the other’s way of processing current events. Each user is interested in what is happening now and invested in their contemporary world, yet they are only getting a part of the whole picture. Meme consumers are encountering the varied and lively commentary on current events by “the crowd” but are sometimes missing the larger context of “the facts,” “history” and “what the experts think.” Traditional news consumers are getting a more measured, fact-checked and carefully crafted version of current events, but missing the powerful collective voice of everyday people and how they feel about the news.

Why did we choose to work with a touch-based mobile interface, and what are the strengths and weaknesses about this type of interface? We chose to work with this kind of interface because nearly everyone owns a cell phone (or other kinds of mobile-based artefacts) in this day and age. A large percentage of these mobile devices have an interaction-form which is based on touch-screens and they have a lot of different applications for both fun and seriousness. The main point is that most people have some sort of mobile interface integrated in their daily life. The mobile interface are designed for devices that are hand-held and intended to be used while on the move. And the technology that support mobile interfaces have become ubiquitous in the last decade (Sharp, et.al, 2011, p. 266). These mobile technologies has opended up towards becomming closer to people who is not in physical reach. The way we communicate with each other has also changed through mobile interfaces. We have tha ability to take our communicative tools with us on the go. And this aspect is a key point in our concept. The way we communicate with each other on the go. Even if we are communicating with people whom we do not know, and doing this anonymously The disadvantages about using the mobile interface are, that if the interaction is too complicated people tend to give up or get bored easily. Therfore we have a wish to make our application as simple to use as possible. Another weakness or difficulty is designing for the small screen and the limited control space available. - "Designers have to think carefully about what type of controls to use, where to put them on the device, and how to map them into the software" (Ibid., p. 269) We have tried to simplify the interface and making the interaction/navigation as natural as possible. Hence making the text-based parts a minimum. The interface has to speak for itself. Litterature — Rogers, Sharp & Preece (2011): “Interaction Design – Beyond Human-Computer Interaction” (2nd. edition)

            Armed with this focus, what emerged from our brainstorming session was our intent to connect and empower two distinct groups within American culture that care about current affairs: the consumers (and makers) of internet-based memes and the consumers (and makers) of the news.

Demonstrate the concept

Goodmorning. (Warning: Typos) Lets start where we left of last night. We talked a lot about which kind of people we would like our concept to reach. Of couse we would like to reach everybody, but that is just not realistic thinking. Therefore we went on with a discussion about the differencies in different kind of cultural groups. First we talked about the differencies of communication amongst agegroups. We would like to open up a dialogue between the agegroups so that the distance between them won't be that huge. By that lessening the misunderstandings between the agegroups, opening the confrontations. Let the different generations reach each other on a common ground which opens up an understanding about the different thought and social norms in between the groups. Next we talked about tabu. About how sex and sexuality has become topics which has a kind of secretcy around them. We would like to start an open dialogue between people who i openly aware of their sexuality and the people who might think these kind of topics to stay in the hidden or may like to be more open about their sexuality but don't have the confidence. We would like to push some of the norms. This does not have to be sexual norms, but we feel the lack of open dialogue in these cases in the public room. Let's challenge the curiousity. Then we had a discussion about loneliness (in every kind of social groups), and the difficulties surrounding the feeling of being alone. We would like to adress that this kind of feelings are normal and that you are not alone. We would like to connect people so that the feelings of loneliness and alienation gets lessened a little. Lets have a dialogue amongst us, that we are all the same, and we are all having these kind of feelings. All af these discussions are all sounded by a wish to confess the difficulties in life, but at the same time being anonomous. People are open to have these conversations about norms and tabus, but people often become too aware of their flaws and the chance of judgements. They are afraid of other peoples judgements therefore they hold their secrets inside. The discoussions held has let up to a start up concept about 'anonomous presence in the public'. And has the connection to our bad ideas workshop, because these ideas often are violations of many social norms.

Where did our scenarios come from? We used the AEIOU method to define the taxonomy of the context we are working with. After we finish using this organizational framework, we analyzed our coding to develop scenarios of use

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