http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008 Just another itp.nyu.edu weblog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en \'Waves of Leaves\' is an interactive, reactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay. By detecting the proximity of the viewer, and by implication the viewer’s gaze, the sculpture reacts by showing gentle movements. The piece is intended to address the concerns of beauty in natural forms and ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/soyoung-park/ New Interfaces for Textual Expression is a series of devices intended to create and manipulate text. Analogous to contemporary interfaces for music and image manipulation, New Interfaces for Textual Expression are intuitive but not literal: they map gestures not to characters (as with conventional writing devices, such as the ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/adam-parrish/ “Inside” is an Interactive video Sculpture Installation that explores the body and mind in the ephemeral moment of creation. This Installation uses a few elements of the body as a site to bring forth the subconscious process of being brought back to ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/ana-maria-gutierrez/ Pocket Learning is an experiment on mobile education. It is an application for the iPhone with example lessons on taking better pictures with the iPhone. The lessons use short procedural instructions, self-paced lessons, interactive examples and participatory exercises to demonstrate the potential of the platform. Users interested in the topic ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/lucas-longo/ The TerraLine re-appropriates the magnetic compass to show directions that are not cardinal but indicators of economic states. It is an instrument that helps one navigate Earth using such directions.Navigating or orienting ourselves in such ways could offer opportunities of envisioning and exploring our world from different perspectives. http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/vaibhav-bhawsar/ REFLECTION is a video installation which represent a feeling of dislocation, disorientation felt by people who share the experience of continously travelling, relocating from place to place for professional or personal reasons, so called modern day nomades. It uses projected imagery to compose a narrative of visually comparing two cities, ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/yan-yan-cao/ \'Waves of Leaves\' is an interactive, reactive, kinetic ceramic sculpture that is made of clay. By detecting the proximity of the viewer, and by implication the viewer’s gaze, the sculpture reacts by showing gentle movements. The piece is intended to address the concerns of beauty in natural forms and ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/soyoung-park/ http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/rory-nugent/ The beauty of communication is listening. What makes a conversation successful is how good at listening we are. The meaning of listening is to convey message that the listener is accepting a speaker\'s feelings as it is, without judgement. Relationship gets yield in the very process of ‘Listening’, because the ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/younji-choi/ Imagine that all of the knowledge and written work you had accomplished in school related to information from your personal and professional life in a customized database for on-demand retrieval. Synapse is an online personal database for users to construct knowledge by associating new ideas with relevant information captured online, ... http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2008/chris-jennings/