Excerpt from final essay:

My project’s aim is to deliver the message of absent presence to university students, making them aware of the way they are using technology and reminding them of the richness that face-to-face interaction with people and/or social surroundings can offer. The challenge was to speak to 30 students on campus for 2-5 minutes (minimum) about [...]

Senior Project Proposal

Final Project Description The goal of my project is to present the concept of Absent Presence in real time/space within campus grounds where I participants can engage in their immediate surroundings and actively experience and understand this concept. Absent Presence in short refers to the concept of being physically present, but mentally preoccupied with regards [...]

Video & Photographic Documentary

In Response to ‘Environmentally Social’

As a response to Derek’s post below, I too felt like it was a good heart-to-heart discussion about both issues of being environmentally aware of the issues going on and also how technology ties into this. I really enjoyed this because I felt I was able gain more knowledge from speaking to these students and [...]

Environmentally Social

Throughout the process of the project, it was interesting to hear the responses that were coming from the interviewees. Some literally experienced a sense of self realization and their dependence on technology while some were keen on having as much face time as possible. During the first session, we came across a few students who [...]

Bitten by the Twitterbug

I thought this video was hilarious and pretty appropriate for this blog; a new addiction that interlinks cell phones, iPhones, BlackBerries, even WordPress! This video is a curiously accurate depiction of the recent phenomenon with twitter, a new social networking tool that targets “young, hip, tech-savvy twenty-somethings”. But now everyone seems to be on this [...]

Time to Make Face Time

Hi there! Wow, Friday was quite an interesting day seeing as it was the first day of my social intervention! My crew and I were quite nervous. We met at around 2pm at school, unfortunately we forgot to take into consideration that most people will be gone by then. However,we realized that it wasn’t so [...]

“iPoditude & Crackberries”

Hello! Today I found a great place that prints t-shirts for a more reasonable price and had a couple more t-shirts printed (as deliverables and for my group member Derek); both with the back printed as well. During the work-in-progress presentation, one of my fellow students mentioned that I should incorporate cellphone into the t-shirt [...]

[Jessica's] New Experience – Part 2

Hi everyone, This is my first post on about my experience on the absent presence project.  When first approached to help for this project, I didn’t quite understand the concept of absent presence.  And it was only after speaking with Charlotte about some examples that I began to understand. The point at which I realized [...]

Money, Money, Money, Money…..Money!

Good Afternoon, I’ve just picked up some of my T-shirts today from Print 3. The only problem with printing these t-shirts was the cost. It ended up to be more expensive than anticipated. Nonetheless, they turned out pretty great, and I’m really proud of them! I’ve only printed 2 t-shirts so far for me and [...]