Empathy 2.0 | Understanding the Rest of Venezuela

As a final project, I decided to explore different resources mentioned during the Rest of You. The main purpose  of this brief research is to identify different methods  and computer-based applications that  could enhance mental or emotional responsiveness toward the political tension that Venezuelans (separated by radical ideological postures) are experiencing.  The entire post was [...]

MRI Music Video

The video is a collection of data gathered from MRI scans and inspired by research into improving the management of children born with cleft lip and palate. The research carried out at St Bartholomew’s Hospital is funded by Barts and the London Charity and CLEFT, a small London based charity.

Playing empathy – Find 10 differences

FIND 10 DIFFERENCES – INSTALLATION

FIND 10 DIFFERENCES – WEB

FIND 10 DIFFERENCES – WEB

Playing empathy is a system that operates by taking controversial data from different sources and asks the user to establish comparisons in playful ways. In this case, I am showing  an installation comprised by two television sets. [...]

Analyzing word frequency in my emails using Python (Collected data from one week)

Yucefs-MacBook-Pro2:ITP-ROY yucefmerhi$ python wordfreq.py

This program analyzes word frequency in a file and prints a report on the n most frequent words.File to analyze: emails Output analysis of how many words? 60 de           81 la           54 que          45 en   [...]

Visualizing mouse pointer movements for a week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Visualizing pulse/heartbeats

Screen capture of the Pulse/Heart Visualizer using the Pulse Sensor

 

Code

https://gist.github.com/yucef/5ffefbb61483e1ca6f90

The Rest of Me.

I felt invigorated, yet defeated by uncertainty, in regard to our first session. Examining “the rest of me” is a task that fascinates me. Until adolescence (14 y/o), I used to be a sleepwalker. One night, during a sleepwalking trance, I woke up for a few seconds. I wasn’t in my bedroom but in the [...]