True Blue Love
is a mobile phone social networking experience, designed to explore the
politics behind intimate phone-based relations. Designed as a program for
mobile phones; each participant enters into the program the characteristics of
their ideal sexual mate, chosen from a series of preset selections. While the
program is running, every time another phone comes within range, a love metric
is calculated which is a representation of how close the incoming person
matches the participant's ideal mate. If the match is close, the phone will
emit a raucous mating call that will be unique to that participant. The concept
behind the triggered mating calls is to attempt to undermine the silent
technology of messaging and email with vocal communication that expresses the
user's desires through a public broadcast, a broadcast that harks back to more
primitive exchanges. The ridiculous sounds should function as social
ice-breakers, and the unwilling couple may want to discuss what it is that they
have in common that triggered the noise.
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