What is "20 Day Stranger", an app that can live together with other people in red for 20 days?

Using SNS such as Facebook and Twitter it is easy to connect with others, but negative emotions tend to be born, such as being suspicious of others. So, by exchanging abstracted information with strangers, we made it possible to connect with our opponent by stimulating curiosity and imagination without creating negative emotion "20 Day Stranger"is.

20 Day Stranger
http://www.20daystranger.com/


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You can see what kind of application 20 Day Stranger is from the following movie.

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20 Day Stranger is an application that two people anonymously connect.


We will follow each other's lives.


What are you doing?


Where is it going?


For 20 days, someone is not aware of each other.


For example, someone is driving a car.


At exactly the same moment, someone else is engraving tattoos.


Someone driving a car and some carving tattoo have a glimpse of their lives by exchanging brief information such as "DRIVING" and "TATOO PARLOR (Tattoo specialty store)" together with photographs That's why.


One to the design studio, one to the port. Is the opponent a designer? Is it a fisherman? I will make my imagination go round.


People who visited the design studio cycling. It is a feeling that I am a society person who is concerned about health. On the other hand, the person who was close at the port moved to the beach, so it may be a surfer.


An interesting point of this application is that it does not use message interaction for information exchange. It is exchanging information via the iPhone, but it is transmitted from the iPhone being moved to the other party that you are "awake", and the speed is detected from the GPS as to whether you are moving by car or walking It will be notified to the opponent. Even if you are walking in the city of Paris, you will not be able to tell the name of the place, and Google Street View images with a radius of about 800 m of your location will be sent. If there are people who notice "Paris!", Some people do not notice where the photos are located.

The interface of the application is as follows.


Beautiful pictures are displayed with simple words.


A mechanism that all records can be tracked for 20 days.


The name of the shop is not displayed, "FalafelRestaurants "and other information abstractly.


I will scroll more and more vertically.


Kevin Slavin of MIT Media Lab, who is developing applications, said, "This is not the idea of" looking at someone's living in a hidden way ", but it is born of the idea of ​​giving the user a surprise and stimulating imagination" I am talking. Through SNS such as Facebook and Twitter, it became easy to connect with other people, but it is difficult to connect with no doubt, contempt or prejudice against the other party. 20 Day Stranger is designed to allow you to connect with your opponent with pure curiosity without doubtfully doubting the information by daring. By exchanging fragments of people's lives such as sentences and images, it is possible that someone who is somewhere in reality, such as "what is this person doing work" "some age" "male or female" It is supposed to be able to imagine life. The name of the opponent and personal information are not notified, and when the 20th day ends, it is possible to send a short message at the end.


Although the application is currently being developed, the development team says he wants to make the application line up in the App Store. Just because Mr. Slavin said that there are problems that it is difficult to commercialize a promotion strategy because many different people are targeted at the user.