Now that we are very sure of what's the project will be, i shall recap the whole
project.
Project Name: PALK
What is it about?
This project is about communication between users
via the facebook (social media) and postcard.
Why facebook and postcard?
Digital social media had brought human
"closer" than ever and this had almost entirely replaced the traditional way of communication.
As the digital medias allows messages to be delivered instantly,
However these digital methods of communicating don't
capture the feeling when you get hold of a real physical
letter on hand.
In order to allow humans to enjoy the convenience of digital communication and
beauty of traditional communication, we came up with this project that make use of
modern and traditional communication.
What kind of traditional communication?
We are mainly working on interpersonal communication.
After much thoughts, we felt that digital communication cause us to lose
interpersonal communication as we abused the convenience of digital media
to communicate and thus stop meeting up people.
Why interpersonal communication?
Interpersonal Communication is important as it is the
key to overcoming doubts and misunderstandings.
It gives more hint and evidence on the message sent.
How the execution will be like?
The sender will engage our service by logging onto our website using facebook,
upon logging in, user will need to enter their own address for us to track and mail to.
Next, user will take a few snapshot using the webcam.
After that user will enter a short 140 character message to the recipient(s) [optional]
and the facebook friend-list will show up for mailing purpose.
After all the digital process are completed, a physical postcard with
a "mysterious looking" design and instruction to visit a website
will be mailed to the sender and recipient(s).
In order to view the final message,
the recipient need to initiate a meet up/ exchanging a way to see the final message
as the people involves in this message each holds a key to the message.
Why such a hassle?
This long process allow senders to experience the "exciting" feeling
from waiting a return mail from recipient. For recipients, when receiving an unexpected letter
from acquaintance, it will brighten their day.
To able to continue such a long process communication, it clearly shows that both party are
important to each other thus the "hassle" gradually became a enjoyable process.
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