Category Archives: Projects

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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Coding for Emotional Impact, Federico Burch, Mimi (Yue) Yin, Projects

pandora

Federico Burch

Explore the mythical story of pandora from through a magical, symbolic, 3D animation.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbb24k6xr1jjlw1/Pandora.mov

Description

Driven by the simple concept of storytelling, this 3D animation takes you on a journey through time as you explore the story of Pandora with the Gods. Each entity is represented through geometric, and abstract shapes, using color, size, and motion as their driving characteristics. Follow this simple story while learning more about mythology in an exciting new way!

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Coding for Emotional Impact

Alejandro Puentes Amezquita, Coding for Emotional Impact, Esther Cheung, Jared Schiffman, Mimi (Yue) Yin, Projects, Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects, Spatial Media, Yiyang Liang

Invisible Cities

Alejandro Puentes Amezquita, Yiyang Liang

Sculpting text into a city.

http://itping.wordpress.com/scupting-data-into-everyday-objects/

Description

Cities are alive. They are vessels for people’s thoughts and emotions. Unlike cities, city models tend to be cold and technical. We are aiming to fabricate a city model full of life and expression. A model that can express the emotions that we experienced when reading the book through a changing atmosphere. Sadness can be rain, anger can be a thunder and happiness can be a sunny day. It is a conceptual project about adding behaviors and interactivity to architectural representations.

The installation consists of two parts. The first one is the actual model, a static representation of an imaginary data-generated city. We are using natural language processing, sentiment analysis and urban design techniques to produce a 3D printed miniature of a city inspired by Italo Calvino’s book “Invisible Cities.” The second part is about creating an interactive atmosphere that responds to human emotions. Using the Pepper's Ghost technique—an illusion from theater, light and sound, we generate different atmospheres that respond to the mood of the authors when reading the book. It is a theatrical dialogue between users and an Calvino's book, using the city model as media to express emotions.

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Coding for Emotional Impact, Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects, Spatial Media

Hanbyul Jo, Nancy Hechinger, Projects, Thesis

Dat(um)A

Hanbyul Jo

Data sculpture that navigates the individual story within the scope of a big dataset.

Description

Data is getting bigger and bigger. An overview of the data gives a complete picture, but not the full story. 'Gentrification of New York City' is one example. My goal was to reveal the individual stories that make up the dataset–the datum within the data. First hand interviews about gentrification (the datum) were combined with income level change over 6 years (the data). The result is a series of sculptures that spotlights what is missing inside an averaged overview of data.

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Advanced Animation Studio, Daniel Shiffman, Isi Azu, Molly Schwartz, Projects, The Nature of Code

Viral Ecology

Isi Azu

Look through the microscope and inteact with a digital microorganism

http://isiazu.com

Description

This project explores the structure of viruses and their hosts in a digital Petri dish using the toxiclobs library to visualize springy viruses and their living hosts. Interaction is though the use of a ''microscope”, joystick and a LEAP.

Classes

The Nature of Code, Advanced Animation Studio

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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Lei Ng, Nancy Hechinger, Projects, Thesis

Roving Spectres

Lei Ng

Roving Spectres is a traveling shadow theater. Taking inspiration from shadow puppetry, traveling tent shows, and physical computing, this project weaves narrative worlds out of nothing but light and shadow.

https://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2014/wen-lei-ng/

Description

In Roving Spectres, shadow and illumination serve as both performative and participatory mediums. A glowing suitcase containing kinetic paper sculptures, a performative glove, an emotive light umbrella — these re-appropriated objects transform into the performer's 'co-actors'. Each object is woven into a series of imaginary landscapes through their interactions with the performer.

With a suitcase, Roving Spectres brings the magic of live theatre to the people where they least expect it.

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Alejandro Puentes Amezquita, Alon Chitayat, Jennifer van der Meer, Lean Launchpad, Maximo Sica, Projects, Rodrigo Derteano

Parenthook

Alon Chitayat, Alejandro Puentes Amezquita, Maximo Sica, Rodrigo Derteano

A location based mobile app that connects a parent to other parents <br />
close-by when you need it.

http://vimeo.com/93091029

Description

A kid is the greatest gift in the world. It changes how we live, what we do and where we go. It changes who we are and fills our hearts with joy and laughter. Parenting on the other hand, can be hard. We feel lonely, scared at times, and very, very tired. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to share our truths about it? To provide insight and encouragement to others?

Parenthook is a mobile app for building local parents networks. A place to connect, share local insights about parenting, and build a sense of belonging. The perfect app for mothers and fathers to find out about local activities for children, babysitters, childcare, or to hang out and meet other parents. It doesn’t matter if you are new in town, a longtime resident or just visiting, there will always be a network around you.

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Lean Launchpad

Allison Burtch, Circuit Design and Prototyping, Gabe Barcia-Colombo, Michelle Temple, Projects, Thesis

Navigating the Really Real

Allison Burtch

How do humans remain spiritually and emotionally authentic in the face of impending societal and environmental collapse? This is an invitation to be alive and present. It is liberation technology.

http://www.allisonburtch.net/

Description

Liberation technology, as I'm defining it, is technology that liberates from unjust economic, political, or social conditions.
I made two things:
A browser plugin that clarifies power structures on the internet.
A cell phone jammer that blocks signals.

Classes

Circuit Design and Prototyping, Thesis

Creative Javascript, Drawing on Everything, Justin Restauri, Lauren McCarthy, Projects, Shantell Martin

Wall of Sound

Justin Restauri

"Wall of Sound" is a large scale, interactive drawing and musical installation that combines a custom-built, hands-free digital interface and video projection to give you the unexpected, magical power to draw music in mid-air.

http://justinr.me/2014/04/drawing-on-everything-wall-of-sound/

Description

“Wall of Sound” is a large scale, interactive drawing and musical installation that combines a custom-built, hands-free digital interface and video projection to give you the unexpected, magical power to draw music in mid-air. With a wave of the hand, users generate marks and tones simultaneously across a large video projection (or screen), creating instantaneous musical visualizations. Inspired in equal parts by Brian Eno's “Bloom” app and Disney's “The Sorcerer's Apprentice”, the interface for “Wall of Sound” is powered by the Leap Motion Controller API. A touch-based mobile version is currently under development and may also be displayed as part of this exhibition.

An early iteration of the project was displayed at the Museum of the Moving Image’s Drawing On Everything exhibition (April 11, 2014/Queens, NY); a video of this initial “connect-the-dots” version is available at http://justinr.me/2014/04/drawing-on-everything-wall-of-sound. “Wall of Sound” was originally designed for Shantell Martin's Drawing On Everything course and further developed in Lauren McCarthy's Creative Javascript course.

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Creative Javascript, Drawing on Everything