Instructor: Clay Shirky
Midterm Proposal  

The Use of ITP Lockers In Replicating A Network Proposal:

Goals: 1: You must design a network that you can build.
I plan to use a certain number of lockers on the ITP floor as nodes within a network. These lockers will be color coordinated into sections so that the nodes can only pass the cards from their section into another section of a different color. This would overall act as a controlling agent and limit the number of node jumps between the node points. The students will act as the transporting factor, which will facilitate the movement of at least four cards through fourth unique pathways before reaching the final destination, which will be my own locker.

2: Describe your network.
My network will be used in the passage of a card from one node to another until its fourth transmission point where it will be returned to my locker. Each card will contain instructions, a blank area for personalized input and an entry field to show the list of nodes it has passed through before reaching it final destination node. This will be accomplished by first randomly inserting the cards into four different lockers within a specific range of colored sections. Once the node has received the card, he or she can review the instructions, personalize the card, and enter the node number on the blank text field before inserting the card into a different colored section node point.

This will be accomplished by first randomly placing the cards on four different lockers within a specific range of colored sections. Once the node has received the card, they will review the instructions, personalize the card, and hopefully enter the node number and color code of the next node before placing it on the actual node.

This process repeats itself until the fourth node, where the end user will read the instruction informing them that they can only can personalize the card and then enter it into my locker. Here are some pictures of my network in progress, please notice how a small treat such as a mini Kit Kat bar can truly helps encourage my classmate in acting as transporters in moving the package from one node to another.

2: What Happend?
I received the Red and Blue packages while the White and Yellow packages were lost in the network. I had predicated that I would lost some of them and I was correct but what surprised me was that even with what I though were quite simple instructions, some people did not move the Blue package in the way I had predicated. Another surprise was that hungry graduates and free kit kats are not a smart mix since I had to refill the two lost package several times in hopes that they would eventually make their way through the network.