Gelatine is a
system device aiming at encouraging coworkers to know each other more and
sparking the opportunities of interaction and collaboration between them. People
edit their profile information, like background, interest and skill, into the database.
When they ‘’check in’’ the working place with their RFID membership card,
the device will print a profile ticket about other member’s information
randomly.
With
the outlook and the form, this device and visualisation makes itself like a prototype of an experiment
rather than a delicate product, so user would feel be invited to try and get
some fun rather than feel stressful in using. The form of ticket also implies
an easy and casual using way.
All
of those physical items, like checkin
Points, thermal Printer and profile ticket, suggest a different form of the
digital personal information and the relationship between people. In the past
form of virtual communities, like Internet forum, people turn into an ID without background and characteristic
to interact with others carelessly and infinitely. On the other side, in the social
networks, like Facebook, people build their real character of themselves and
edit their information to interact with people they have known. However, what
user didn’t except, the excessive opening personal information and excessive
expansion of the scale result in privacy problem, too. Contrarily, Gelatine limits the scale
of communities and brings them to the reality. Unlike Facebook, an omnipresent
and transparent ‘’window’’, Gelatine plays a role of a living ‘’matchmaker’’,
which exists physically and chooses the information to give independently
(randomly). With the matchmaker, people
know each other by ‘’introduction’’ rather than ‘’peeping’’.
In sum, Gelatine provides a new way of communities,
which focuses on people have not know each other, plays a role of matchmaker
and deals with the information of users more indirectly and euphemistically.
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