Fun Theory: Bicycle Lights

Can you change people’s behavior by making something fun to do? Our assignment this week was to come up with our own Fun Theory, illustrate the problem and the solution.

The problem is: it is extremely dangerous to ride your dark at night without lights. In fact it’s the law to have theme.

My solution: I want to make it fun to have you lights on while riding and to celebrate your doing so, so as you pass a sensor with your lights, a spotlight will follow you for a few feet and play music for you to jam to. Here it’s playing “Flashlight” by the 70’s funk band Parliament.

bethereNYC will be revived!

betherenyc (be there nyc) is a project I’ve been working on (on and off) for a few years. Read its history here. My plan for the semester is to revive it and launch by end of May. Taking the skills, knowledge, and time afforded by my classes this semester, I think it’s going to be a kick-ass project.

betherenyc is a location-based mobile website that shows free and cheap events happening around you now. I will be using my HTML5, Dynamic Web Development, and User Experience Design classes to finally complete this project.

I will be using various data sources for pulling the events information as well as using user-submitted data. For example, one set of data will be from NYC’s Open Data, the Calendar of Special Events.

 

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