Cik Meow's FYP: Finalized Proposal

Title:

MyTweetFace

Theme:

Social innovation and new media

Background:

An interactive photo-installation usually will works with realtime images and face recognition software. The aim of this installation is to bring people closer together in a playfull way. Like many social networking tools on the internet, this installation enables you to connect with other people. It plays with the idea that the virtual world is replacing our social life and therefore wants people to connect in the real world again.

Why I choose this topic?

Camwhore is becomes a new trend in Malaysia. Definition of camwhores in Malaysia is differ from foreign country. Camwhore means anyone who is addicted to taking countless pictures of themselves to post on the internet. Pictures range from conservative face shots to explicit nude photos complete with visible sex acts. But in Malaysia, its means someone who likes taking pictures of himself/herself in all kinds of places. Self obsession is definitely there, but skin showing is not necessary in this context.

Source : Google Image

They are like to share their images on net and sharing it with public. This is proven by what I found ob net by simply type-in some keywords.

Uploading photos to internet means no privacy applicable on those photo anymore.

Problem Identification:

People who like camwhoring usually like to seek for attention and will use online social network services such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster as their medium.

what is a social network service?

"A social network service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services." -Wikipedia

Aim and Objectives:

To experiment how users react on camera
To let users share the fun with the world
To provide high technology experience to users
To experiment on different ways of communicating and interacting
To give users new experience of photo sharing

Motivation

Camwhoring activity and social networking services are much related to today's trends. So, I am trying to adapt this pop cultural into my project.

Ideation and Concept

User need to take their picture in a photobooth. They can choose the effect that they want to apply in their picture (swirl, firery, watery, etc). The picture taken will be immediately downloaded from the camera to the server and been shown on the screen. User then can do simple editing on their picture like change the color and saturation,rotate as well as rotating the picture. After done with editing, user can choose either want to save the picture through email or uploading their image which user need to log in to their Facebook (FB) account later. This application can be access through FB apps too. User can have fun while taking picture either alone or with friend and share it in their FB account.

Review, Analysis and Precedence studies

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