Syllabus
The Rest of You
- Dan O’Sullivan dan.osullivan@nyu.edu
- Office Hours: https://itp.nyu.edu/dano/hours
Obectives:
- Examine your existence.
- Build tools for this examination, developing physical computing and programming skills in the process.
- Develop a final project that attends to the rest of you.
Week 1 September 14: Illusion
- What is the Rest Of You
- Illusions: Visual, Tactile, Temporal, Consciousness, Free Will, Existence
- Structure of the course
- Student Introductions
- Examples: Examples
- Reading: Visual Illusions, Consciousness Illusions , Free Will
- Assignment: Analog input from Arduino to Processing
Week 2 September 21: In and Out
- What was your day really like? Get an objective picture of your day using light, gravity, sound, image, temperature.
- How are you really feeling? Get reading from unconsciously controlled reactions sweat, breath, temperature, electical, posture, heart, sound, subliminal input,eeg
- Sending Multiple Sensors, File IO, Error Catching
- Assignment: Collect data from one outwardly turned and one inwardly turned sensor and write them to a file. blog it in the “In and Out” Category
- Reading: Flow 2, Seligman 2, Gilbert, Power of Now
Week 3 September 28: Show Data
- Off The Shelf: Various (Flowing Data) , SensorBase, Pachube
- Graphing Data in Processing
- Eclipse
- Dowdload “Java Developers”,
- New Java Project, New Class,
- Project>Properties>Build Path>Libaries point to processing’s core. jar
- Run As
- Assignment: Answer a question with a graph blog it in the “Show It” Category
- Reading: Being Certain, Visualizing Data (online at NYU), End of Faith, NYC Self Quantifiers
Week 4 October 5: Wear it
- Batteries
- Small Microcontrollers
- BlueTooth
- SD Datalogger newOne, another SD thing
- Assignment: Make it fit on your body blog it “Wear It” Category
- Reading: Evolutionary Psychology, Dennett…
Week 5 October 12: Mobile Logging
- Mobile Processing Set Up
- Saving Data in from Bluetooth with Mobile Processing
- Getting data from the phone
- Assignment: See if you can leave the lab blog it “Mobilize It” Category
- Reading: Out of our Heads
Week 6 October 19: Watch Your Language
- Keylogging
- MouseMovements
- Shapes
- Packet Sniffing
- Assignment: Measure some already digital activity or expression blog it “Vectorize It” Category
- Reading: Memes Blackmore, Dennett
Week 7 October 26; Analysis
- Words of the Month
- Bayesian Examples: Shiffman 1, 2, Parrish
- Reading: Graham
Week 8 November 2: Midterm Show
- Midterm Show
Week 9 November 9: Collective Unconscious / Research Presentations
- Sharing Data
- Asynchronous Synchronous, more Synchronous , Asynchronous
- Reading Mirror Neurons
- Research Presentation
- Caroline, John, Robert, Elizabeth, Paul, Marco, Matt, Diego
Week 10 November 16: Eyes Sleep/ Research Presentations
- Assignment: Blog Entry for your final Project Proposal.
- Illusion Blogging. You should write something shorter than 1500 words about existential computing. You can write anything that will help you collect your thoughts. It should not just be a project proposal but you can incorporate project ideas. Here are some questions to help you get started. Due Nov 20.
- Research Presentation
- Alex,Andrew,Asli, Dimitri, Jorg,Li, Mustafa, Nobu, Ozge, Sue
Week 11 November 23: Final Project Proposal
Jorge, Robert, Li, Matt, Alex, Sue, John, Andrew, Paul
Week 12 November 30: Final Project Proposals
Mustafa and Diego, Elizabeth, Caroline, Dimitris, Nobu, Asli, Marco, Ozge
Week 13 December 7: Workshop
Week 14 December 14: Presentations
- On-time Participation 20%
- Blogging 20%
- Assignments 30%
- Final Project 30%