Syllabus

The Rest of You

• dan.osullivan@nyu.edu
• Office Hours

Obectives:

1. Examine the less obvious parts of your existence.
2. Build tools for this examination, developing physical computing and programming skills in the process.
3. Develop a final project that attends to the rest of you.

1)  The Illusion January 30

• What is the Rest Of You
•   Illusions: Visual, Tactile, Temporal, Consciousness, Free Will, Existence
• Structure of the course
• Examples: Examples
• Readings for this week: Icognito — a recent survey of the Rest of You, “Happiness Hypothesis“, Thinking Fast and Slow
  
• Further Readings
• Assignment:
  • Choose an autonomic response (Sean Montgomery All Biosensing, Make Article) and find a way to sense it.  
    
  • Sweat: Mustafa’s GSR, Che-Wei GSR
  • Breath:  Stretch at Book Store, Stretch DIY
  • Heart: Yury’s Pulse Oximeter or AdaFruit, heart chip or other heart chip full Sparkfun polar heart module, Interupts
  • EEG: Mental Block eeg
  • Eyes: Pupil Dilation, Eyetracking
  • Posture: Flex Sensor (at bookstore), SimpleOpenNI Processing Library, WhatAreYouCoveringExample
  • Slow Motion
  • Blog about why connecting computers with the rest of you might be interesting.  Please associate post with category “Why”

2) Listening to the Rest Of You February 6

• Discussion: Student Project Ideas.
• Show Autonomic Sensors
• Other logging options: gps, video,hardware, apps, google calendar.
• Tech: Logging and Graphing Visualizing Data,  Tom’s Examples, Arduino Send, Processing Log and Graph, Processing Graph, Processing Scroll Graph
• Mobilize It: Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk page 363-415 ,Processing for Android, BlueTooth Module , Test with Mac, BT in Processing for Android, Listen BT Write File
• Assignment: Graph your autonomic response  in context of some other log of your day.  Please document your work so far with a post using the category “Exposing ROY”
• Reading: Positive Psychology Flow 2, Seligman 2, Gilbert, Power of Now  How can you increase your happiness.

3) Talking to the Rest of You February 13

• Discussion: Positive Psychology
• Show data collected from autonomic nervous system.
• Techniques: Priming Processing Example, Therapy, Meditation,Hypnosis, Smell,Smile, VR for ROY, Implicit Tests, Religion
• Talk directly to the Rest of You
• Reading: Dennett, Blackmore, Deutsch, NYTimes

4) The Rest of Your Digital Self  February 20

• Discussion Memes
• Techniques: Simple Word Count, Word Count from Keystroke Logging, Interesting Words, SMS, Google, Gmail(processing), Gmail (Python), Twitter, Word Frequency Across Files, MouseMovements, Shapes, PacketSniffing, Bayesian Filtering, More Textual Analysis,  Semantic analysis opencalais freebase
• Assignment: Find Patterns in your digital footprint
• Reading The Intuitive Dog Wagging the Rational Tail, Righteous Mind , Feb 20 Self Quantifiers Meet Up

5) The Rest of Us  February 27

• Social Psychology
• Techniques: YourMorals, Collective Intelligence
• Assignement: Compare yourself to a group.  Build a machine to expose your intuitive prejudices, and induce empathy with people with different intuitions.

6) Final Project Progress March 6

• Show: Collective Project
• Discussion:  Final Projects

7) Final Presentations   March 13

• Present Work

Evaluation:

• On-time Participation 20%
• Blogging 20%
• Assignments 30%
• Final Project 30%

Further Readings:

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