The Rest Of You

Using biometric data in previous assignments, I would consistently arrive at a similar point where I had to justify a leap from quantitative data to a subjective conclusion.  For example, deducing emtional states from EEG readings, GSR readings or from subjectively weighing words within emails.  Instead of trying to diminish this gap by adding more data or sensors, I decided to embrace it. . . . → Read More: From My Friends

Though this is a post about my final project presentation, MoodyJULIO is in no way finished. Last week I shared with class an update regarding the current state of my project MoodyJULIO. I have plans to continue working on this project through next semester.

I am sorry to say that over the past two weeks I’ve suffered . . . → Read More: MoodyJULIO, Still Moody

I wandered around the city taking readings with the Locative Ambient Sensor Triptych. The light, sound, and air quality data I collected informed the manipulation of video images corresponding to those places. Thus far, I’ve created an arrangement of three scenes: Flushing, Sunnyside, and Rhinebeck, NY. From here the project can be expanded to encompass more . . . → Read More: LAST Documentation

Breathing is body activity that can occur unconsciously or consciously. Without thought, we breathe automatically, but with practice, we can learn to breathe more effectively. By breathing properly, we can better manage stress and stress-related conditions that are not advantageous to modern life.

Close-up of the LEDs on the structure

Breathe is a light sculpture that aims to curb . . . → Read More: Breathe.

TESTS

Four Focal Points: Upper Thoracic, Lower Thoracic, Center Lumbar, Upper Pelvic

Corrie

Mike

STRAP-ONS

COMPOSITE

PROJECTION SCULPTURE
Possible idea: Using wire and a semi-transluscent material (e.g. scrim, tulle), I’d like to sculpt the spinal curve so that when the posture is in proper alignment, we see a complete vertical column with no concave or convex distortion. However because the projection will . . . → Read More: Records of a crooked spine (2)

With the intention of bringing awareness to the unseen effects of language, I created a physical device that responds to the mood of emails. After several form factor iterations, I decided to go with quite a literal shape of a plant – taking inspiration from the movie ‘E.T.’, whereby a potted plant would mirror E.T.’s state . . . → Read More: ITPlant – Growing Between the Lines

http://openRTMS.org

OpenRTMS is a open source platform that use mobile devices for relaying data from sensors to an online database in realtime. Its a project that deals with quantifying both your internal and external environment. The platform has 3 main components. The sensor device is comprised of a sensor module, a rechargeable battery powered Arduino microcontroller, and . . . → Read More: OpenRTMS

TXTual Interactions is an exploration of what it will take to illicit a response from strangers when providing a non verbal call to action.  The project functions by mounting an LCD display in a jacket and sending messages to it via bluetooth from an Android app.  How likely is someone across the subway to talk to . . . → Read More: TXTual Interactions

All My Life is an interactive data visualization that shares moments from the archives of my online life in the context of what else was going on in the world during the same time. . . . → Read More: Final Project: All My Life

The poster with a mock up of what was on the table, that I was going to have at the show.

The video; in my last moment working on this project I started thinking about the spaces wearable technology already occupies in our daily experience, and the layers of refraction that telling that in a narrative type . . . → Read More: Heart On My Sleeve

WARNING: This project is a work in progress.

In the weeks intervening between my proposal for my final project (see here: http://mfleisig.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/breathless/ and here at Rest of You: http://itp.nyu.edu/~dbo3/roy/?p=936) and the moment I actually got up and presented it, I focused on the external representations of my respiration alternative to the screen-based display I had come up with for the . . . → Read More: Breathless Reflections

Operating somewhat in a funk for most of the former part of the semester, pairing up with Miriam for our midterm and final proved to be just the conceptual jump start I needed to orient myself in work mode. Admittedly, the difficulty in grasping a satisfactory trajectory in a class such as this- what could . . . → Read More: Finally…not yet.

This lead me to investigate the concept of future technologies and where we are going with all this bio sensing stuff. If we consider the possibilities that storage and computational power continuing to rise, then analyzing large data sets over vast time periods will no longer be a factor. The possibility for ubiquitous capture of bio data in all facets of life: home, school and social will allow for integrated monitoring. Which demands more wireless solutions. We cannot be strapping heart rate monitors and sensors to our body at different times and not lose focus on our current tasks. The need of unobtrusive sensing equipment seems obvious. . . . → Read More: Wireless Heart Rate and Experience Exchange AND THE FUTURE!

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Some progress, with work still to be done.

For our final project we decided to create a sort of telepresence penis:  to measure Jason’s erection level and map this to the faux wooden one that could be worn by me, so that I could experience an accurate erection.  A nice side effect was that it seemed I . . . → Read More: final documentation

I began the semester with the desire to represent my experience of walking through NYC, being as it is a notable experience for me. I have observed in myself a certain kind of “road rage,” but also a connection to herds of animals. I wondered about representing the ways that my fellow NY . . . → Read More: Walking

For my final project I’ve done several visualizations using the data I’ve been logging, timing my baby’s sleeping and eating for the last six months.  Using the java calendar library, I’m able to get extract the date and minutes from csv files, and plug in the data over the 184 days.

This is the first, left and . . . → Read More: The last six months (final).