If you have a web cam you can got to http://itp.nyu.edu/dano/face to hover over a web with other people looking at that some page. Your video image follows your cursor around the page tuning in other video images more sharply when they are close to you on the page. This needs a Flash 10 plugin.
Breathing is surprisingly underrated. I made this example for students in my Rest of You class to be able see their breathing on their cellphone and to log it over the course of a day. In the course of this I live the dream of wearing a bra on the outside of my clothes during class. (more…)
It is kind of a kick to see your heart beat. Polar is a company that makes lots of stuff for athletes to watch their heart beat. The data usually goes to something like a watch and i think it is pretty hard to get your own hands on the it. I made this example for students in my Rest of You class to be able to use their heart control somthing or just be able to see the same data in their own visualization.
Project Description: This was an experiment to bring the video tracking and video recognition that is very popular at ITP into the realm of very small and inexpensive microcontrollers. It is a continuation of a project that made use of a PIC microcontroller and a Quickcam. With the introduction of very cheap CMOS cameras and very fast SX microcontrollers, this tool could have greater speed and resolution. At the same time a group at CMU developed a commercial kit which uses the same components (better engineering).
Technical Notes: I wrote the software in C for a SX Chip and build the circuitry to connect to a CMOS camera from Omnivision.
Project Description: Merpy.com is a children’s Website which features the animated, musical, and interactive stories of several characters by Marianne Petit.� This project set out to build life-size puppets of the Web characters.� The user would face the puppet theater and through manipulating a traditional pop-up advance the story.
Technical Notes: I worked with Marianne to create the life-size motorized puppets.� I built a microcontroller to control them and wrote an authoring tool in Macromedia Director/Lingo for creating sequences of animations for the puppets.
Project Description: I programmed an application for testing response latencies as a measure of accuracy. I worked with Dr Brian Corby, Fordham University.
Technical Notes: The application was written in Director with Xtras added to achieve millisecond timing and to port logged data into standard statistical analysis software
3D sensors to measure and display an individual’s ability to maintain their balance at the Hypocrites Project, NYU Medical School.
An application for analysis of home finances for Wall Street Journal, Interactive Edge.
This was a collaboration between the ECHO (the virtual salon/on-line service) and the SCI-FI channel. During the weekly airing the sci-fi cult classic “The Prisoner” series an ECHO chat session scrolled� in a small window at the bottom of the screen. People from around the country telneted in to become part of a national virtual peanut gallery.�
This was a collaboration with Jamie Biggar, Sharleen Smith at SCI-FI Channel, USA Networks Online and Stacey Horn at Echo Communications.
Technical Notes: This was written in Macromedia Director using a Serial Xtra to connect directly with a modem and emulated Telnet.
An interactive fiction where the dramatic arc was customized to uniquely frustrate the user based upon previous actions done at Apple Computer, Human Interface Group.
