Wall-sized poster we used to exhibit Social Campus at Cornell Tech's Open Studio event. Social Campus is an iPhone event-networking + recommendations + social network iPhone app created in collaboration with Cornell Tech. It includes a context-aware platform that transforms the campus to a place that fosters collaboration and connects people from academia, industry, and the public. It suggests people/events on campus that match your interests, as well as assists networking at on-campus events.

1. Vision: The Information Hub
• What?
• How?
• Why?
A context-aware platform that transforms the campus from its traditional use
only by academia to a place that fosters collaboration and connects people
from academia, industry, and the public.
Build an information hub capturing the connections between people, at a
personal level (characteristics, interests), activity level (activities, movements),
and organizational level (project/research information and objectives).
Make the campus more useful to all people, and no longer just a place of
academics. Also, increase everyone’s engagement.
Social
Campus:
Let’s Design the
Communication Infrastructure of
the Cornell Tech Roosevelt
Island Campus
Benefits
Group
Students
Faculty
School
Management
Business/Industry
Public (Visitors)
As a User
Connect more effectively with
industry & the public
As a Developer/Researcher
Get involved with developing
the IT infrastructure and apps
for the new campus
Research social dynamics on
campus by analyzing and
visualizing platform usage data
Collaborate more effectively
with businesses and make
good connections with visitors
Foster more engagement
between academia, industry
and the public create a new
cutting-edge campus
Find the right partner and
resources for collaboration
Discover activities and
people on campus
Objectives
1. Create an open back-end information hub and sensor network
2. Develop context-aware apps
3. Give feedback to the Roosevelt Island campus planners
Idea
Geofence 2 Initiate
1 Checkin
3 Broadcast
Ad-hoc Event
Facilitating Connections
Planned Event
Ad-hoc Event
Sensor Network
(micro-location)
Information Hub
(Interest graph)
"What's on?" In the campus
CAMPUS
- Get involved with planning the new campus
- Create DB/information platform & network of connections and relationships
• Social graph
• Business graph
• Academic graph
- Develop end-user applications (smartphone, wearable, etc.)
- Research privacy and other issues
- Test and deploy sensor network
• Provide users’ micro-location
• Connect to different kinds of sensors, and other input/output
devices (including IoT)
• Deploy beacons and sensors within buildings and infrastructure
• Evaluate new wearable devices
Next Steps
Industry
Academia
Activity Level
People Level
Organizational Level
Public
Prototype Smartphone App
Ask
For
Demo
Advisor
Direction
MVP Development
(iOS version)
Research
MVP Development
(Android version)
Team
Join
Collaborate Find
Discover
Motivation Cycle
Current Status
Contact Kazuya Komon <kazuya.komon@isidentsu.com>
Jim Maricondo <jimm@isidentsu.com>