{"id":213,"date":"2015-05-11T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/yu-ji\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:17:51","slug":"yu-ji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/yu-ji\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Connecting Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Yu Ji<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>This project explores alternative ways to connect people, especially strangers, culminating in an app called 4. 4 helps users learn more about people they frequently encounter, and say hi in real life without prejudgments based on appearance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4app.io\">http:\/\/4app.io<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>4 is an app for people living in metropolitan areas or who are new to a specific space to explore and start building connections in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Most other apps for meeting new people create relationships that stay online. 4 encourages casual real life conversations between strangers. 4 works by connecting strangers through gradually revealing more information with each passive encounter. If two users have crossed paths 3 times, their identities are revealed and they are prompted to connect in real life. It is up to the users to interact at the level they prefer. <\/p>\n<p>4 Celsius is right above the freezing point. Breaking the ice and being nice to local strangers in real life is the goal of 4.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Thesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yu Ji This project explores alternative ways to connect people, especially strangers, culminating in an app called 4. 4 helps users learn more about people they frequently encounter, and say hi in real life without prejudgments based on appearance. http:\/\/4app.io Description 4 is an app for people living in metropolitan areas or who are new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/yu-ji\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4 Connecting Strangers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,16110,28,10132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-roddy-schrock","category-thesis","category-yu-ji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}