5-in-5 Day 1

Fifi Xie
Fifi Xie
Sep 3, 2018 · 2 min read

09.01.2018, Manhattan, NY

Duration: 12:00–17:00

Not until recently I started to be more aware when I’m NOT paying attention to others, especially when I get a email or a message on my phone while someone’s talking, I always apologize. It wasn’t a big problem for me before, but I just started to become more self-conscious about it.

Today I’m on my way to meet a friend for lunch and we planned to just hang out afterwards since I’m watching her cat for couple of days… Since we will be having “intense” one-on-one interaction, I want to see how many times will I look at my phone, while I’m with someone.


My Phone usage Log

I carried my notebook all day long, and had told my friend I will be logging in every time I check my phone. However the problem with that is , I started to try to avoid the urge of just to reach for my phone. To be honest, this is probably not very accurate.

HOWEVER, I still managed to check my phone… TOTAL OF 21 TIMES.

(During 7 hour time period, which means 3 times and hour, which mean, once very 20 times!!)


I am kind of shocked how many times I’ve used my phone, especially I definitely tried to unconsciously reaching for it all the time. In order to make this more tangible I decided to visualize it in the following way:

  1. For every time I check my phone, document it.
  2. Take the square of every number.
  3. Use the result as the side of a cube.
  4. Build every cube
  5. Manage them in a way where each one has to touch the previous one

Results:

Visualized Image 1
Same data, visualized style 2

Theme: Human-Human Interactions Vs. Human-Computer Interaction

Methodology:
Record every time Human-Computer Interaction override Human-Human Interaction,

Medium: CAD Modeling

Question: Is there a stronger bond between Human-Computer Interaction? Is it because the interaction itself bring more/is more meaningful? Or is was shaped and integrated into our lives that way it became a unconscious act?

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