Building on last weekend’s “Dispatch” experiment, I initiated another design probe which I also turned into a short video. This experiment, which took place on Saturday, started when I sent two text messages to 21 of my classmates and a few of our friends.
The first text from my personal mobile:
Dear Party People, I need your help with another experiment. For the rest of the day, please do not contact eachother directly. Instead, send an SMS to xxxx-xxxx and I will forward your message to the whole group. P.S. I heard about a party tonight, I will send details later.
And then a text from an old mobile phone (xxxx-xxxx referred to above):
Welcome to the Pilot Year Dispatch Line. To unsubscribe, reply with the word “bail”. Tak!
For the rest of the night, I used my mobile phones to manage a pretend service that allows friends to share updates with each other. I unsubscribed people, sent confirmation responses, and forwarded each persons message to the whole group. As it turned out, I did not choose the best night to conduct this experiment because most people stayed in (although I wonder if conducting this experiment actually caused people to stay in). Like the last experiment however, it proved a good way to gain insights about people’s behaviors when it comes to using their mobiles as a tool to communicate and coordinate within a group friends.
You can watch the video above to see what happened or keep reading to see a log of all the correspeondance…
3:50
auto message: This is the Pilot Year dispatch line. To unsubscribe, send SMS with the word “bail”. Tak!
3:51
yves: bail
3:56
andreas: friends playing at støberiet tonight ‘funky kong’
4:00
alice: bail (boyfriend just arrived) sorry!
4:02
nina: stop the texting please :-) i’m not going out
4:05
sara: bail
4:09
magnus: bail
4:22
francesco: bail
4:30
eilidh: what are ujjval and Sid doing when they finish work?
4:36
mimi: Hey, Sid. I’ve just checked out your sms. Why don’t you stop by my house after finishing your work?
4:37
sid: most probably bail. but will decide 3 hours later :)
5:17
tobias: bail
7:19
adam: there is a party tonight ON the metro, then continuing in a space below the ørestad station. anyone interested?
7:26
sid: bail
7:35
andreas: Funkykong and Strøberiet presents: LOOP NIGHT saturday13june blagards plads 3, 22-03. Minimal tech and house beats by: Daniel san, FuadVonLoop, Jonathon Fremond & Minimize. Support your local beat! See you @ the dance floor <3
9:00
Eilidh: going to adams and mimi’s place,not sure what the plan is though
10:03
mimi: bail
10:20
automated message to people who have not yet updated the group: You have not updated the Pilot Year dispatch line. Are you still on board? If we do not hear from you shortly, you will be automatically unsubscribed.
10:22
ujjval: im still on board
10:26
marcin: im with my roommate at another party (IT crwod). Still waiting for things to happen. Keep me up to date…
10:32
ujjval: people who are on board, should consider andreas party. he is such a sweetheart to send invitations. cheers for andreas. uj
10: 36
kevin: bail
10:39
erlend: just want to stay up to date
10:46
eline: bail
10:54
ujjval: have viagra tonight and make it a great night, only 1dkk. SMS ‘vgra4 2night”5555
10:58
andreas: lol
11:16
automated message to people who have not yet updated the group: You have been automatically unsubscribed.
12:42
marcin: i’m asking what everybody is doing?
12:50
adam: marcin, you should try to catch up with andreas. i think everyone else has called it a night.
12:55
adam: or you can look up Undervand
1:00
adam: bail
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