– What ideas, themes or issues do you want to address in your project?
We want our project to address our consistent connection to social networking.

– What is the purpose or intention of your project?
Our intention is to have people be consciously aware of their consistent connections to social networks. Mainly focusing on how much we talk about them and how much we use them to share our thoughts. If this device existed we would want people to be more conscious of what they’re thinking because any thing they think would shared publicly on social media.

– Who is it targeted at?
This device is targeted to people who want to share their thoughts on social networks more often. This is also for people who might be interested in being more aware of what they’re thinking or saying.

– How will it work?
Our original concept focused more on sensing a voice and then transferring the words to a twitter account. Our focus is now on thoughts being translated into tweets. It’s mainly conceptual now, but we will have a small prototype simulating how it may work.

– What sensors and/or services does it need to connect to?
A mind reader or voice sensor is what would be needed to make this device work. It has to be connected to a social media service such as Twitter or Facebook or other platforms that allow sharing information in an Internet public place.

– How will you make it? What materials do you need to get?
To make this we’ll need a computer, an arduino board, arduino software, and processing. We already have the materials we need accessible to us.

– How does your idea relate to what you have learned so far in Social Software?
This relates mostly to the lessons where we learned about how people use social media platforms. Our prosthetic will be looking at how people currently use social media and how social media might be used in the future. This also relates to the other social prosthetics and art projects that look at things that could be useful, but more or less bring up more questions than actually answering some.

– What additional research do you need to do?
Our additional research is looking into the current API’s that exist that could help make a small prototype.