The Flower 'Sense your World' was initiated by the department of Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at the Delft University of Technology. The category of this Flower is 'Internationalization at Home'.
The Department of Telecommunications has many employees from non-Dutch descent: just looking at the NAS (Network Architectures & Services) and WMC (Wireless & Mobile Communications) Groups, already reveals PhD's originating from 13 different countries! The 'Sense your world' Flower explores this diversity. The main aim of 'Sense your world!' was the collection of opinions from people about certain fashionable and technological developments, in the countries where PhD and MSc students originate from. As such we aimed at enhancing the cultural awareness of all students by having them share their heritage through involving their relatives in this project.
As the name of the project suggests, the students have interveiwed people from different continents of the world about their opinions on the applicability of sensor nodes. The reason to choose this subject is that wireless sensor and RFID technologies are hotspots in both the academic and industrial domain. The wireless sensor endpoints will likely rise to 41 million worldwide in 2010 and the market is expected to be as high as $5.3 billion. However, this skyrocketing depends on the spread of recognition of the technology and the desire of the applications. Therefore, we want to collect the opinions of people from every corner of the world. This way telecommunication students learn to acknowledge divers opinions on new technology and engineer solutions that meet people's needs. Whenever PhD or MSc students returned to their home country, they conducted interviews with a (grand) parent (or a member of another generation than their own) and taped this with a video camera. Interviews are conducted in the mother tongue of the student. The interview started with a few general questions about education. Examples questions are 'What kind of education did you receive?' and 'What educational means were used?'. The interview proceeded with a few general questions about ICT, for instance 'Do you frequently use computers?' and 'Do you have a mobile phone?'. The final part of the interview focused on sensor nodes. The student show a sensor node, see Fig. 1, to the (grand)parent and asks, amongst others, 'What do you think this is?' and 'How much do you think the devise costs?'.
When the student returned to Delft, the camera was handed over to the project team. The student then made an English translation and subtitles of the interview for the project team. This Flower has resulted to in video clips shot in 9 countries: Ethiopia, China, Nigeria, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Iran and Portugal.
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