Phonealicious.

Welcome.

This is a webpage created for our project in the course Interaction Design Project, which is held at Chalmers Lindholmen, Gothenburg, Sweden.
The project is now finished, and will be participating in the IDXPO exhibition at Chalmers Lindholmen in Gothenburgh, the 4/5 to 7/5 2010.
If you would like to read more about the other projects in the course or the exhibition, please visit IDXPO.se for more information.

Description of the Project.

Phonealicious is about provoking the public to think about how they use their cellphones.
Do we share too much information when talking loudely on the phone, or do the public have the right to know what the other end of the line is saying as well?

In the project we are developing three prototypes that will provoke the audience to reflect on the use of cell phones.

GlovePhone

In today's society every cellphone looks more or less the same. The GlovePhone was developed to show that a cellphone doesn't need to look like what we are used to.
Is is necessary to put down your cellphone in your pocket after each use? A cellphone is in many cases an expensive gadget that the user is proud of, why not display your cellphone in the same way that you display your watch or your handbag?

PhoneBox

The PhoneBox is a mock-up of a sound proof box that people will put on as a helmet when talking on the phone. The box will keep the public from hearing what you are talking about with the recipient of the call.
The PhoneBox makes the audience reflect on what kind of information they share to everyone around them while talking on the phone while sitting on the bus, on resturants etc.

VoiceShirt

Would you talk differently on the phone if you knew that the callee had the speaker phone on and shared the call to all the people around?
The VoiceShirt puts a speaker on the belly of the caller, transmitting the other hand's voice to the public. This transforms the phone conversation to an ordinary conversation between two people, with the difference that one of the people doesn't know his voice is shared to the world.

Project members of Group 2:

Member	Email
Fredrik Andersson	fa[at]student[dot]chalmers[dot]se
Kristoffer Holmberg	kristofh[at]student[dot]chalmers[dot]se
Raymond Karlsson	raymond[at]student[dot]chalmers[dot]se
Andreas Rönnqvist	ronnqvia[at]student[dot]chalmers[dot]se