Category Archives: Craig Protzel

Craig Protzel, Daniel Shiffman, dexter miranda, Jiaying Peng, Mashups - Creating With Web APIs, Projects, The Nature of Code

Piñata Rush

dexter miranda, Jiaying Peng

A game where you play a prospector in the wild wild west searching for ghost piñata's using your maracas as a weapon.

http://pinatarush.com

Description

Piñata Rush is a social game and is best played with a large group of people. It's an absurdist game where you play a prospector in the wild wild west searching for ghost piñata's using your maracas as a weapon (think of the California gold rush but instead of gold the player searches for piñata's)

The game is played on two screen. The first screen (ideally on a large screen) contains the game map where all the prospector sees each other roaming the desert. the second screen is the prospectors mobile phone (iPhone / android) the phone acts as the players maracas used to explore the map and summon ghost piñata's

Classes

Mashups – Creating With Web APIs, The Nature of Code

Brian Clifton, Cory Forsyth, Craig Protzel, Dynamic Web - Server, Mashups - Creating With Web APIs, Projects

CongressionalForecast: Contribution Explorer

Brian Clifton

Imagine how power of data analytics and visualizations can be used to clarify the complicated economy of influence between members of Congress and those who 'donate' hundreds of thousands of dollars to certain politicians – this is the CongressionalForecast: Contribution Explorer.

http://congressionalforecast.herokuapp.com/

Description

As Lawrence Lessig said, “The system we have allowed to evolve keeps Congress perpetually dependent upon the Funders, while only biannually dependent on the people.” The influence of money in politics has exploded since Citizens United, and has taken a more dire path with the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the McCutcheon case. With our politicians continually aware that everything they do affects their ability to raise money, what can citizens do to understand this economy of influence? We need better tools to visualize, to engage, to make connections, and to understand how, why, and when our Congress is creating laws, and who really benefits from them.

Built using publicly available data, CongressionalForecast: Contribution Explorer is online suite of interactive infographics enabling people to explore and discover relationships behind political contributions.

Classes

Dynamic Web – Server, Mashups – Creating With Web APIs

Amanda Gelb, Craig Protzel, Creative Javascript, Dynamic Web - Server, Katevisuth Sukpisan, Katherine Dillon, Lauren McCarthy, Mashups - Creating With Web APIs, Mike Dory, Projects, User Experience Design

Art Channel

Amanda Gelb, Katevisuth Sukpisan

An interactive personal music video that let you dance with the animated art from the Cooper Hewitt collection.

http://www.katevisuth.net/ux

Description

**** This project would be a part of UX LAB: A journey into the Cooper Hewitt ****

**** Prefer you to watch this VDO https://vimeo.com/93448180 ****

Change perceptions of the museum from a boring and too conceptual place into a fun and interesting place through the Cooper Hewitt Museum website. The idea is… “Viewing art should be as fun as watching other web entertainments.” So, we are going to make the collection of the Cooper Hewitt come alive with a personal music video that integrates the art collection, song, together with your own move through a web cam.

How it works:

1. Enter the site.

2. Select the theme. (Each them has a few animated images and song.)

3. Learn about the collection before get started.

4. Start making your VDO.

5. Save or share your VDO.

6. Done and explore other collections.

Classes

Creative Javascript, Dynamic Web – Server, Mashups – Creating With Web APIs, User Experience Design

Craig Protzel, Jeffrey Ong, Laura Juo-Hsin Chen, Mashups - Creating With Web APIs, Projects

Tune In, Tune Out

Jeffrey Ong, Laura Juo-Hsin Chen

Sounds from the surrounding environment translated into a sonic landscape.

http://jffng.com/tune-in-tune-out

Description

“Tune In, Tune Out” is a website that uses your computer's on-board microphone, listens to the surrounding environmental sound, and translates it into a musical landscape.

An accompanying visualization appears on-screen, along with options to change the musical fundamentals (key, scale, mode) of the sounds.

So much effort and energy has gone into our attempts to “escape” our immediate sonic environment: conversations, distracting noises, baristas banging out old coffee grounds from the espresso press. (Some of us have gone to the extent of buying “noise canceling” headphones to drown out the surrounding chaos).

But there's no denying the need / desire to focus, and there's also no shortage of aural distractions living in New York City. “Tune In, Tune Out” offers an alternative to the music and tools we use to tune out the noise around us, channeling that very noise into a musical landscape.

Classes

Mashups – Creating With Web APIs