Category Archives: Heather Greer

Courtney Nadine Coleman, Heather Greer, Projects, Thesis

BriteRise for Childcare

Courtney Nadine Coleman

BriteRise for Early Childhood is a web and mobile platform that creates a more personalized learning path by allowing parents and early childhood educators to track, visualize and communicate a child's health and growth data in real-time.

http://www.briterise.us

Description

BriteRise for Early Childhood is a web and mobile platform that allows parents, educators, and health professionals to become more aware of a child's overall wellness through the ability to receive real-time observational and objective data. The system not only allows for the manual documentation of a child's growth and development, but caretakers have the ability to obtain, visualize, and analyze physical data of a child from popular consumer heart monitors and other biosensors to get more objective data in assessing a child's well-being.

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Heather Greer, Projects, Rose Meacham, Thesis

Moving Portraits

Rose Meacham

Moving Portraits is a video series that documents the subtle facial gestures that express internal emotional states. Fusing art and scientific practices, video portraits of the six universal emotions were recorded and analyzed quantitatively.

http://thesis.itp.io/students/rsm397

Description

Psychological research has classified six facial expressions that correspond to distinct universal emotions: disgust, sadness, happiness, fear, anger, and surprise. But do we truly understand how to interpret these internal states in other people? And is it possible for a computer to use predictive algorithms to determine emotions in humans? In an effort to explore these question, I generated a series of slow motion video portraits documenting the detailed gestures and physiological states of subjects responding to emotional stimuli. A classification tool and library of quantified emotions was used to analyze the subjects' movements and train neural networks to identify the motions indicating specific internal states.

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Donna Miller Watts, Heather Greer, Projects, Thesis

Fictioning, or The Confession of the Librarian

Donna Miller Watts

Borges "The Library of Babel" adapted to Oculus Rift, with some critical seasoning along the way.

http://dont.have.yet

Description

3D animation for Oculus Rift of “The Library of Babel” using Three.js and WebGL. Like stereoscopes of the past, and in some ways, books, the Oculus Rift may provide a private narrative experience of the “real”, enhanced with the “feel” of 3D. I chose this Borges story because it describes an unreal landscape, and as such, provides fertile ground for me to challenge ideas of the “right” kind of content for “realifying” technologies.

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Fandom: Pop Subcultures in a Digital Age, Heather Greer, Jing Zhao, Projects, Thesis, Zoe Fraade-Blanar

Pleashare

Jing Zhao

Pleashare is a web application that provides sex toy reviews for Chinese users. It encourages them to share their experiences and start conversations about their sexual pleasure.

http://www.xingzhiapp.com/

Description

Recently, Chinese women are becoming more open to sex, but their awareness of their own sexuality is still evolving. Sex toys help women’s sexual exploration, Pleashares helps them establish their sex identity and personal words in sex and sexuality discussion. With Pleashares, users can review sex toys, see other user’s experience of body exploration with sex toy, and build conversations based on collective hashtags. Through understanding how to get pleasure from their own bodies, women get to know themselves on their own and not just from others.

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Thesis, Fandom: Pop Subcultures in a Digital Age

Heather Greer, Projects, Surya Mattu, Thesis

From The Dark

Surya Mattu

Anonymous data is a myth.

Description

From The Dark is a project that offers insight into the hidden mechanisms & power struggles within our current communications infrastructure. It brings to light the data we generate with our smart devices & what it reveals.

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Connected Devices and Networked Interaction, Heather Greer, Natasha Dzurny, Projects, Thesis, Tom Igoe

GLANCE

Natasha Dzurny

A simple kinetic display for personal information, at a glance.

http://just-glance.com/

Description

With the mass adoption of smartphones, wearables, and apps that collect personal data, so much is being tracked. Glance builds on the quantified self market to enhance the way collected data influences its users. It makes information more available, more relevant, and more beautiful by placing simple, iconic displays in meaningful places. Glance is a kinetic wall piece designed as home decor and includes a configuration app for multiple data sources. Using basic geometric shapes, the display is read quickly at a glance. As personal data becomes more mainstream, look to Glance for a relevant display of knowledge, understanding and inspiration.

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Connected Devices and Networked Interaction, Thesis

Heather Greer, Projects, Sam Slover, Thesis

Wrap Genius

Sam Slover

Wrap Genius is a new Web and mobile food labeling framework that gives people a more personalized look into their food.

http://www.wrapgenius.me/

Description

The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's biodiversity, and so much more. But much of the data of our food purchases remains opaque to us as end consumers. This isn’t good enough. So, I went on a mission to come up with something better. For 12 weeks, I carefully tracked all of my grocery purchases and created a new visual framework to better understand it all. Where does my food come from? What are my healthiest and unhealthiest choices? Which foods have GMOs? I created a Web and mobile dashboard that shows me all of this information and more. It's my dream food label, designed for the interests of consumers.

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Heather Greer, Pia Zaragoza, Projects, Thesis

White Box Communications

Pia Zaragoza

White Box Emergency Communications is a radio-based emergency communications system that is accessible, affordable, and easy to use that can be deployed when modern communication methods are down during a disaster.

www.pzaragoza.net/whitebox

Description

Modern communication methods rely heavily on cell phone towers and internet connections, which, during disasters are either offline or reserved for emergency response and disaster management. How can survivors communicate their location and get the supplies they need? White Box Emergency Communications aims to solve this problem by repurposing an existing protocol, automatic packet reporting system (APRS), developed by the amateur radio community for emergency communications. By making APRS more accessible, affordable, and easy to use, it allows responders to see status updates, view GPS coordinates, and communicate independently with survivors via this long-established wireless technology.

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Azure Tianran Qian 錢天然, Heather Greer, Marina Zurkow, Project Development Studio (Marina Zurkow), Projects, Shawn Van Every, Surveillance Documentary, Thesis

What’s your secret?

Azure Tianran Qian  錢天然

As an experimental of non-linear story telling, the project contains the documentary film in an interactive wooden box, which has the memory-ralated objects that assembled in a poetic way.

Description

“What’s Your Secret” is an augmented reality installation that shares the stories of elderly woman. In the installation, the audience is presented with boxes and mementos, each with a live portrait and objects of the subject.

The stories revealed in the box share life’s experiences – good and bad – give people a choice of hearing the different parts of the story over time.

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Project Development Studio (Marina Zurkow), Surveillance Documentary, Thesis

Heather Greer, Kang-Ting Peng, Projects, Thesis

CARDIO

Kang-Ting Peng

Quantify your heartbeat, Display it on the road

http://thesis.itp.io/students/ktp242

Description

“CARDIO” is a pulse detector on the steering wheel in your car to measure the driver's heartbeat. After receiving and quantifying the driver's heartbeat information, “CARDIO” sends the information to the LED strips mounted outside the car. By syncing the person and the machine, “CARDIO” makes the car a way to communicate on the road. “CARDIO” is a tool for quantifying the driver's emotions and assists other drivers in detecting situations such as road rage. In this way, “CARDIO” attempts to connect drivers and road users in a more personal visual way.

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