Critical commentaries on social behavior

Teenager socialization in network publics.

Nowadays, almost every primary schools and secondary schools be provided full computer and internet facilities. They should know more knowledge for digital culture after computer class. Some of the students use this to get more knowledge through internet but some they will use their knowledge to do bad things. For example, they do their research online (convenience, save time, money), share their knowledge with others and chatting (without hand phone) through MSN, YM! , Skype and etc. At the same time, internet can let user to watch drama as free of charge like PPS and online shopping is quite normal. Addiction TV and games is easy to get from teenagers. Addition, fast food like McDonarld, Pizza Hut, Domino Pizza and etc can get delivery through online. Therefore, teens stay at home 24 hours, never leave their place.

How social network sites fit into teenager lives?
Facebook and MySpace are most famous in our culture. Almost every teenager also has their own account. Convey message at there is like send message to whole world. Facebook is a quite good way to sharing our knowledge, feeling, photo, favor and so on. For teens, they used Facebook and Myspace for a very simple explanation; it’s to hang out with their friends. Not only is it a fun, it is socially critical to participate.

Shella: If you're not on MySpace, you don't exist.
Tara: Like everyone says get a Facebook. You need to get one.

Social network is not primarily for teens, they are about socializing in a networked peer public with one’s social network. In other words, teens go onto Facebook and MySpace to hang out with the friends that they know from school, activities, tuition, church and camp. Their online world is a reproduction of their offline peer networks. Their social interactions move fluidly between online and offline environment. Next, they start adding friends, fleshing out their social network. These are not teens’ closer and dearest, but the peer publics in which they socialize. They include classmates that they don’t particularly like but don’t want to offend as well as their best friends. There are teens that go online to make friends, but this is not standard. At the same time, just they meet new friends or potential love interests at their friends’ dinner parties, teens meet new people through their friends and classmates and cousins and shared affiliations.

lina: Have you met anyone thru MySpace?
San: Not really. There was a girl, who knew me, but I didn't know her, but I added her anyways and she started talking to me… We both attended Young Life at different schools, but then one night there was an all area young life and I met up with her there.

That's one of the benefits of socializing in a public setting. Teens enjoy being exposed to new people through trusted networks. Networked publics like MySpace and Facebook provide the social infrastructure to allow teens to communicate, socialize, share information, and do all of the things that they relish about hanging out with friends. Furthermore, they allow teens to do this within the social context of peer publics. While hanging out with friends one-on-one is fun, much more is gained through hanging out in public and being forced to interact with peers and negotiate social situations.

Friendship plays a significant role in the lives of most teens. Friends influence each other's activities, interests, behavior, and outlook. On one hand, friends provide emotional support, guidance, and validation.

Shawn: It's just fun to talk to your friends on the phone, make sure they're okay and if they are having problems to help them get out of it, and it's cool to have that support.

On the other, friends can also cause drama and engage in battles over popularity and status. Yet, at the end of the day, even when teens' friends frustrate them, they love them very dearly. While many relationships and situations in teens' lives are scripted, friendship is valued for its unstructured-ness. Friends do gather for specific events and activities, but they also gather just to "hang out." Unfortunately, hanging out has a bad rap, especially in activity driven. Many adults believe that such "wasted time" breeds trouble. Sometimes maybe teens will have some different comment with their parents. Therefore this will get quarrel and relationship damaged at last.

In conclusion, teenager's life is affected by networking. Unity in our life is quite important for relationship family. Any different “comment” of teens can try to discuss with their parents in calm and patients mood. Everythings also have their own solutions for that. Easy be happy.

RESEARCH *1..Review.Analysis.

Mindmap of interactivity


Mind map of Unity

Unity

• The quality of being united into one; oneness.
• The combination or arrangement of parts into a whole; unification.
• Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
• unity= teamwork, team spirit, togetherness (Cooperative work done by a team)
• there is no “I” in “TEAMWORK”
• TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
• A successful team beats with one heart.
• Coming together, sharing together, working together, and succeeding together.
• (Math.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity. i.e: The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity.
• (Poetry & Rhet.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.
• (Fine Arts & Mus.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
• (Law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
• (Biol.) Community>Society>Unity Family

"We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately"
[Benjamin Franklin on his signing of the Declaration of Independence]

"All for one; one for all"
[Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers]

"None of us is as smart as all of us."
[Ken Blanchard]

"Teams share the burden and divide the grief."
[Doug Smith]

"Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust."
[Dennis Kinlaw]


-Together We Are One-

References:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unity
http://dictionary.babylon.com/Unity#science
http://www.heartquotes.net/teamwork-quotes.html
http://newmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Interactivity

Why Teamwork is Important ?

• Effective teamwork is essential for an organization to realize its high-performance potential.
• Importance of Teamwork to Employees
  It makes me feel part of something larger than what my job position describes as my role
  It is shared by other members of my team
  It allows me to focus on what I’m good at while learning new skills
  It is evident in my reduced workload
  It improves my quality of life
• Importance of Teamwork to Companies
  It is the only way anything gets accomplished with any quality and efficiency
  It facilitates growth
  It keeps us competitive
  It stimulates new ideas
  

How to achieve good teamwork?

• Good teamwork starts with a shared understanding of its importance.
• Many organisations recruit people with an aptitude for and leaning towards teamwork. Their induction process emphasises it.
• The way teams work demonstrates it. Although team members have clear and designated responsibilities, they help others when required.
• Good teamwork behaviour is recognised and rewarded.
• Teamwork is built into the organisation culture - it is a part of 'the way we do things around here'.
• Good leadership: Effective leadership is one of the most important components of good teamwork.
• Clear communication: Communication is a vital factor of all interpersonal interaction and especially that of a team
• Establishing roles: It is absolutely necessary for team members to understand what their role on the team is, what he/she is responsible for.
• Conflict Resolution: Conflicts will arise no matter how well a team functions together. The best way to counter conflict is to have structured methods of conflict resolution.
• Set a good example: The team leader must set a good example for good teamwork to come about.

Teams within teams

• A team may be subset of a bigger team. In the more formal language of organisation structure, a team can be a section which is part of a department which is part of a division and so on.
• Each organisational unit is a team, where eventually the whole organisation is one big team. This fits in with my definition of a team as 'A group of people, contributing their individual knowledge and skills but working together to achieve a common goal/task.'
• The nature of our society can create competition between teams. It is a part of our competitive society. If think of teams in a sporting context, immediately think of two competing teams. That is the way sport is constructed.
• A management training game I use is called 'Win as Much as You Can'. The rules of the game clearly show the benefits of co-operation, but teams playing the game often adopt a competitive approach which has dramatic, negative impacts on the outcome of the exercise.

Reference: http://www.articlesbase.com/team-building-articles/the-importance-of-teamwork-381813.html

Team Spirit Quiz:
http://www.coachingandmentoring.com/Quiz/teamspirit.html

Team Role
"A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way." - Meredith Belbin

• How can understand behavior or behavior of team members?
• Nine team roles are identified by Belbin
  Completer - Finisher
  Coordinator
  Implementor
  Monitor - Evaluator
  Plant
  Resource Investigator
  Shaper
  Specialist
  Teamworker

Reference: http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/team-role-theory-meredith-belbin/2utb2lsm2k7a/1240#

SOFTWARE STUDIES

-Adobe Flash

-Zone Trigger

Webcam Zone Trigger

• Zone Trigger is the first multi-purpose motion detection software.
• This means that motion detection isn't just for security anymore.
• Useful in such sectors as art, marketing, quality control, automated inventory, security and monitoring, motion detection has never hit so close to home. You already knew that computers can do much more than keep books and play video games. Tools like Zone Trigger bring new possibilities to you and your business.
• Traditional software simply alerts you when motion is detected within the camera`s view.
• Zone Trigger lets you decide what will happen when motion is detected in an unlimited number of "Hot Spots" located anywhere within the camera's range. You can bind any action to a Hot Spot, making Zone Trigger a very versatile tool.
• An awesome tool to built custom systems. For security, art, monitoring and automation, Webcam Zone Trigger enables you to quickly build a reliable system at low cost.

Media Zone Trigger

• Specifically designed to display video content on one or multiple screens, Media Zone Trigger provides a simple way to produce high-quality interactive signage that will upgrade your advertising, show booth, marketing system, or any project requiring audio/video files synchronized with motion detection.

Audio Zone Trigger

• Audio Zone Trigger is a sound detection software.
• It takes live audio from any input source and enables the computer to react to it in a user-specified manner.
• The sound-detection system lets you set any number of Triggers that perform any number of user-defined responses (record sound, run a file, execute a hotkey, etc.).
• The triggers can also dynamicaly adap to the environment's sound volume to detect only sound peeks. You can set each trigger's sensitivity and actions individually, giving you full control.

EQUIPMENT STUDIES

Microphone

• Microphones are transducers which detect sound signals and produce an electrical image of the sound, i.e., they produce a voltage or a current which is proportional to the sound signal.
• The most common microphones for musical use are dynamic, ribbon, or condenser microphones. Besides the variety of basic mechanisms, microphones can be designed with different directional patterns and different impedances.
• Dynamic Microphones-sound moves the cone and the attached coil of wire moves in the field of a magnet. The generator effect produces a voltage which "images" the sound pressure variation - characterized as a pressure microphone.
• Ribbon Microphones-the air movement associated with the sound moves the metallic ribbon in the magnetic field, generating an imaging voltage between the ends of the ribbon which is proportional to the velocity of the ribbon - characterized as a "velocity" microphone.
• Condenser Microphones-sound pressure changes the spacing between a thin metallic membrane and the stationary back plate. The plates are charged to a total charge
  

Webcam

• Webcams are video capturing devices connected to computers or computer networks, often using USB or, if they connect to networks, ethernet or Wi-Fi. They are well-known for their low manufacturing costs and flexible applications.History:
  Started in 1991, the first such camera, called the CoffeeCam, was pointed at the Trojan room coffee pot in the computer science department of Cambridge University. The camera was finally switched off on August 22, 2001.
  The oldest webcam, as the technology came to be known, still operating is FogCam at San Francisco State University, which has been running continuously since 1994.


• Uses of Webcam:
  · Capture Image
  · Record Video
  · Video Conferencing
  · Video Security
  · Input Device
  · Sensor
  · Motion Detect
  · Webcast
  · Live Streaming
  · Video Greeting Cards

Video Projector

• A video projector takes a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system. All video projectors use a very bright light to project the image, and most modern ones can correct any curves, blurriness, and other inconsistencies through manual settings. Video projectors are widely used for conference room presentations, classroom training, home theatre and live events applications. Projectors are widely used in many schools and other education providers to project onto an interactive white board to interactively teach pupils.
• A video projector, also known as a Digital Projector, may be built into a cabinet with a rear-projection screen (rear-projection TV, or RPTV) to form a single unified display device, now popular for “home theater” applications.

*to be continue.sleep first.

Proposal 6 (Decided)

Topic
Unity is Power

Background
The state of being one. Two or more people work in a team, in which each person contributes with different skills and express his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group in order to achieve common goals. A teamplayer is one who subordinates personal aspirations and works in a coordinated effort with other members of a team in striving for a common goal.

Problem Identification
Nowadays, most of the human loses spontaneity in some situation such like donate blood, participate charity to help people in need, throw rubbish in the rubbish bin and so on. Motivation unity of human can save our earth and life.

Objective and aim
To create or maintain a spirit of teamwork
To achieve a common goal as a teamwork

Ideation
An installation created that need multiplayer cooperate to achieve a common goal.

Proposal 5

Topic
Interactive Fitting Room

This idea is suddenly pop up in my mind so just sketch it down.

After I done some research about that just recognize my idea is almost same have been done before. One week past, I am going to come out another proposal for my fyp.

Inition Markerless Motion Capture Avatar System

Proposal 4

Topic
Orchestra

Background
An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and almost always a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus. The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but changed very little in composition during the course of the twentieth century.
Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors. Conductor is the one who use of hand gestures to indicate melodic shape and give directions to performers during a performance. Mostly orchestral conductors use baton.
Beat and Tempo:

2/4, 2/2, or fast 6/8 time

3/4 or 3/8 time

Problem Identification

Aim and objective
To experience be a conductor in a performance.
To enhance knowledge music through this installation.

Motivation
I like the feel that can enjoy the music in orchestra or performance. I hope can directing the tempo, rhythm and musical flow in that too.

Ideation or Concept


An interactive installation that let user act as conductor to directing a musical performance. User explore that using the motion of hands(wave) to let the music produce out loud or soft.

Inspiration
sentosa musical fountain


Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor_(music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lpWrNPqw4A&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra

Proposal 3

Topic
Time

Title
Time value

Background
Time is a component of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events ,the intervals between them and to quatify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy and science.Time is not a reality but a concept or measure.Temporal measurement: calendar, clock

Problem Identification
Time is limited and rare, it never come back and never rewinds like videotape.

Aim and Objective
To remind treasure our time in future.

Motivation
Time passed by too fast that I can't imagine.

Ideation or concept
An installation art created to let the user explore the time is unreal , rare and can't control it that this may be the difference between fame and failure.(no idea yet)

Proposal 2

Topic
Recycling

Background
Recycling is the process of taking a product at the end of its useful life and using all or part of it to make another product.It is the third component of the "reduce, reuse, recycle" waste hieararchy.Materials that can be recycle include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles and electronics.

Problem Identification
A rising quality of life,the high rates of resource consumption have had negative impact on the environment. Nowaday cities and towns are face with the problems of high volumes of waste and didn't get a proper solution for waste management. Furthermore, people lack of motivation to recycle.

Aim and Objective
To enhance the knowledge of recycle to user revise our earth.
To encourage people take part in recycle campaign.

Motivation
In a span of a week, we would able to see that have a collection of newspapers, magazines, bottles, jars and etc around us. Just think about how much that we would be having in a month or even a year. For most people, the best way to get rid of these items is to throw them away however it is just that important that we save what we can save and recycle what we can reuse. Just imagine, according to statistics given by Chaz Miller (a writer in the US), one person can make four pounds of trash each day. So it is time to start do recycle help save the environment and get a better tomorrow.

Ideation or concept
An interactive application on screen where user can get more information through pages of the recycle. Some simple game apply in the site (fill full the bottle with milk) to go into the next page.


Slurpee Main Page



Slurpee Game


Some simple animation in this site.

An installation will be created that are 3 colors of unique dustbins place on there. When somethings passed by the hole of the dustbin, it will produce sound effect of that material and some thank you sentences or please come again, after that some motion graphic appear on the screen. User can design their material on there and email to people.(Reuse Bottles, Jars, and Cans) Due to arts and crafts are an excellent way of recycling materials and can demonstrate to the user that recycling can be fun.

Reference
http://www.slurpee.com.my/
http://unlimited.orange.co.uk/