Telepresence

This is a production course that explores the possibilities of conveying a live presence across a distance. The class will begin with a sampling of tools for sending signals across a network. These tools come from areas such as physical computing, telephony, TCP/IP networking and A/V devices. Then each week a theme will be presented and students will be expected to develop a small written proposal for a telepresence project. Over the course of 9 weeks each student will also be expected to learn to employ some of the tools presented to build two ideas into prototypes. Physical Computing, ICM and Comm Lab are all prerequisites. The final part of the semester will allow students to develop one of their ideas further in to a final project.

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• Week 1 January 22 : Presence
  • Tools, Processing in Eclipse
    Reading: User Illusion, Power of Now, Keho, Meme Machine
    
• Week 2 January 29 : Ambient
  • CVS for Socket Code at /home/dbo3/CVS/Telepresence_CVS_08
  • Sockets, Microcontrollers
  • Reading: Media Equation
• Week 3 February 5 : Trust
  • 360 Camera, Mirrors, IP Cameras, P/T Control (code in the CVS)
  • Reading: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Week 4 February 12: Visit HP Telepresence Center
  • Government Photo ID (Driver’s Licence, Passport).
  • Meet at 2 Penn Plaza, 8th Floor
  • Reading: The Good Great Place
• Week 5 February 19: TelePlace, TeleActor
  • Skype, IChat
  • MJPEG Stream see TeleView in CVS
  • Flash Streaming
  • QTStream
  • IP Cameras (last week)
  • Mobile
• Week 6 February 26: Assignment Roundup
• Week 7 March 4: Sex, Eating, Drinking
  • SexDrive , Sexerati, Commercial Sex Products, DIY Sex Products, Article
• Week 8 March 11 : Globalization
  • Here Comes Everybody(Flash Mobs Belarus Example), Golden Arches of Peace , Israel-Arab , YahooLive
  • DataServer, DataClient in CVS Also Cell Stuff in another CVS *New Project CellMobileProcessing in the CVS /home/dbo3/CVS/CompCam_CVS_08 Mobile Processing,(will also need MPowerPlayer (mac) or Sun (pc) wireless toolkit, EclipseME
• Spring Break
• Week 9 March 25 : 3rd Place
  • TeleImmersion Jaron Lanier
• Week 10 April 1: Assignment Roundup
• Week 11 April 8: Final Project Proposal
  • Kacie
  • Sinan
  • Jae Yoon, Noriaki
  • Kyveli
  • Meng
  • Zannah
    
• Week 12 April 15:Final Project Proposal
  • Che-Wei
  • Daniel Liss & Marc
    
  • Ja in
  • Rodgrigo
  • Rory
  • Ameya
• Week 13 April 22: Final Project Workshop
• Week 14 April 29: Final Project Presentations

Grading

• 20% On-Time Participation
• 30% Blog Entries
• 20% Assignments
• 30% Final Assignment