The Rest of You
Obectives:
- Examine the less obvious parts of 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.
1) Illusion September 6
- What is the Rest Of You
- Illusions: Visual, Tactile, Temporal, Consciousness, Free Will, Existence
- Structure of the course
- Student Introductions
- Examples: Examples
- Readings for this week: Visual Illusions, Consciousness Illusions (just “What Conciousnes is not”) , Illusion of Rationality
- Further Readings
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Assignment:
- Analog input from Arduino to Processing
- Blog about Illusion, What are you missing from what is really there? How can exposing that be interesting or useful? Please use “Illusion” category for your post.
2) The Obvious Unnoticed September 13
- How are you really feeling? Get reading from unconsciously controlled reactions sweat, breath, temperature, electical, posture, heart, sound, subliminal input,eeg.
- Sean Montgomery All Biosensing, Make Article
- Mustafa’s GSR, Che-Wei GSR
- Yury’s Pulse Sensor
- Sparkfun polar heart module or heart chip
- Mental Block eeg
- Keeping Your Laptop Awake
- Sending Multiple Sensors, File IO, Error Catching
- Assignment:
3) Cyborg September 20
- Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk Book Edition 2 page 363-415 PDF
- Batteries
- Small Microcontrollers
- Processing for Android
- BlueTooth Module , Test with Mac, Bluetooth and Android, Listen BT Show on Screen, Listen BT Write File
- SD Logger Comparision
- Assignment: Make it fit on your body blog it “Wear It” Category
- Reading: Evolutionary Psychology Concepts, Explanations, Predictions, Problems.
4) Show It September 27
- Graphing Data in Processing OO Grapher, Simpler Grapher
- Processing in Eclipse
- Download “Java Developers”,
- New Java Project, New Class,
- Project>Properties>Build Path>Libaries point to processing’s core. jar
- Run As
- Proclipsing (Matt Parker)
- Assignment: Answer a question with a graph blog it in the “Show It” Category
- Off The Shelf: Various (Flowing Data) , SensorBase, Pachube
- Reading: Being Certain, Visualizing Data (online at NYU), Explanations, NYC Self Quantifiers
5) Them October 4
- Cameras, Slow Motion, Heat, Kinect, Time Lapse
- SimpleOpenNI Processing Library, WhatAreYouCoveringExample
- Android Processing, Sensor Library(optional), Camera Example
- Assignement:
- Use a camera to learn about what your body is reacting to. How can you correlate externally and internally oriented sensors?
- Reading Mirror Neurons Blog under the “them” category.
6) Mental Diet October 18
- Keystroke Logging, Interesting Words, Word Frequency Across Files
- MouseMovements
- Shapes
- PacketSniffing
- Bayesian Math
- Assignment:
- Capture and Analyze Your Media Diet
- Reading: Blackmore, Dennett, NYTimes
7) Share It October 25
- Sharing Data
- Asynchronous Synchronous , Asynchronous
- Virtual Communication
8 ) Midterm Show November 1
- Midterm Show
- Assignement: Create a presentation of research or art work that OTHER people are doing in this area. It can be an artist, a scientist, a theoretician a gadget. Last year people reported on Behavioral Economics, Neuro Feedback in Dance, Interacting with Strangers, Quantum Physics and Perception, Cyborgs, Fight or Flight, Dreams, Psycho Somatic, Relaxation, Urban Data, Respiration, Memory, Mind Reading, Empathy. Presentations should be 10 minutes long including time for questions. You will be assigned a week to present. Please add presentation to the blog under the “Research” category.
9) Special Topics Research Presentations November 8
- Michell Cardona
- Paragini Amin
- Jason Stephens
- kimi spencer
- Eunyoung Kang
- Maria Rabinovich
- Suvarchala
- Christina Arnold
- Nick Santaniello
- Michael Rosen
10) Special Topics/Field Trips / Research Presentations November 15
- Tour of NYU Center for Brain Imaging Meet at 12:30 at 6 Washington Place, Room 156
- Research Presentations
- Anh
- Saraswathi
- Deqing Sun
- Johnny Lü
- Ara Cho
- Nelson Ramon
11) Final Project Proposal November 22
- Michell Cardona
- Paragini Amin
- Jason Stephens
- kimi spencer
- Eunyoung Kang
- Maria Rabinovich
- Johnny Lü
- Suvarchala
12) Final Project Proposals November 29
13) Workshop December 6
14) Presentations December 13
- On-time Participation 20%
- Blogging 20%
- Assignments 30%
- Final Project 30%
Further Readings:
- Sensual Illusion– Visual Intelligence Hoffman, Phantoms in the Brain Ramachandran, Mind Hacks Stafford , Media Equation Reeves and Nass
- Illusions of Rationality– Stumbling on Happiness Gilbert Fooled by Randomness Taleb Predictable Irrationality Ariel
- Temporal Illusions– Power of Now Tolle
- Consciousness and Free Will– The Origins of Conciousness Jaynes User Illusion Norretranders Out of Our Heads Noe
- Illusions of agency– Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Goffman Social Illusions, Moral Animal Wright The Selfish Gene Dawkins The Meme Machine BlackWell
- None of it exists without you- The Self-Aware Universe Goswami