I don’t even care what this does, I want one! With the little movable people on the display of this turkey, I must say that it looks like this make-believe device would be something that I might be willing to spend a fair amount of coin on.

This page serves as a summary of my thesis work. The complete site will follow shortly.

My Social Fabric Thesis Report

Idea/problem/context: While tending not to let things slide in professional environments because of the immediate repercussions, we often neglect our personal lives, where the effect of our actions are less apparent. Good at building systems that assist us in structured environments like the workplace, we find it difficult to design for the ambiguous, less tangible nature of our social lives.

What it is: The Social Fabric is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric. [Read the rest]