Pamela Liou
Exploring new structures in textile fabrication with additive manufacturing
http://pamelaliou.com/3Dprint.html
Description
Using scripting and panelization tools in a suite of software,
Classes
Talking Fabrics
3D Printed Textiles
Category Archives: Projects
GLANCE
Natasha Dzurny
A simple kinetic display for personal information, at a glance.
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.
Classes
Connected Devices and Networked Interaction, Thesis
Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects
Esther Cheung, Amanda Gelb, Alejandro Puentes Amezquita, Alexander Whitehurst, Andrew Cerrito, Batu Sayici, Danqing Wang, Inpyo Chang, Jacob Wilkinson, Jinyi Fu, JungHyun Moon, Kate Godwin, Nevena Kocic, Pamela Liou, Qingyuan Chen, Tan Ma, WoonYung Choi, Xinyi Deng, Yiyang Liang, Yu Ji
This course challenges students to combine three technologies – object-oriented programming, 3D modeling and digital fabrication – toward making an everyday data object.
http://escdesign.net/index.php?/ongoing/video-test/
Description
Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects is designed, on the one hand, as pure creative experimentation with technical tools, and on the other hand, as exercise in critical thinking and conceptual strategy. The ultimate goal of this course for each student, in attempting to converge these two processes, to develop a dual attitude towards technology that will empower them to master any tool as a vehicle for expression.
Classes
Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects
Virtual Menu
Dana Reginiano, Maximo Sica
Can the old fashioned menu be enhanced by technology?<br />
We surely think so.
Description
A menu where the food is projected on the plate.
Dishes are displayed in the way they actually look like (“what you see is what you get”), and the user might navigate to the different dishes, and check for additional information such as price, calories, health issues, user reviews, etc.
Classes
Spatial Media
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.
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.
Classes
Thesis
Centrality
Aankit Patel
Procedural poetry that invites the reader to take a more intuitive approach to 'meaning'.
http://www.aantiks.com/centrality/
Description
Meaning often lies in seemingly random events, in the chaos and messiness of life. Yet when we read, we try to get at the meaning by digging deeper, getting to the core or the center of the author's message.
Centrality uses the Wordnet lexicographical corpus, the dadaist cut-up technique, and Jabberwocky-esque nonsense to write a poem modeling the meaning of a single user-inputted verb. Using the very common statistical measure of centrality, the normal distribution, the poems juxtapose difference usages or senses of the verb with each other and nonsense. The effect hopefully invites the reader to treat text and language more intuitively, allowing context instead of deterministic definitions guide their understanding.
Classes
Reading and Writing Electronic Text, Coding for Emotional Impact
Toilet Champ
Seiya Kobayashi, John Choi
Toilet Champ is a fun app. It is counting how many times people (mainly ITP people) go to restrooms in ITP and showing the ranking of them.
Description
Two iBeacons will be located in each restroom(one next to ER and one next to Shop). Whenever people go into the restrooms iBeacon will automatically send a signal to an android phone, and a phone will send data to a server. Those numbers will be counted and ranked.
This app is collecting and analyzing indoor-location-based data!
Classes
Always On, Always Connected
Th_s Lan_ Is Yo_r L_nd
Karl Ward
For children living in poverty in the United States, what does our country sound like?
Description
Th_s Lan_ Is Yo_r L_nd is an interactive United States map that controls a music player. Choose any point on the map and you will hear the popular American folk song “This Land Is Your Land.” But the sound will be periodically muted, in proportion to the percentage of children living in poverty within the county at that point on the map. On average, about one out of five children in the US live in poverty. In some counties, fewer than one in twenty live in poverty, while in others three out of five live in poverty. What does it sound like when these children are left out?
Classes
Data Art
RESTART MOTION
Christina Carter
RestartMotion is a tool for creating dynamic animations using images with common objects found on the web.
Description
Restart Motion explores the possibilities for creatively repurposing images abandoned in the digital world. Using images with common objects found on the web, Restart Motion is a tool for creating dynamic animations.
We take pictures to capture a moment but when we upload them to the web, the moment is lost as the picture becomes one of many in a massive catalog of similar images. How can meaning and motion be restored to these abandoned assets? Restart Motion, currently based in openFrameworks, is a software tool for creating animations using common objects in found imagery. Inspired by the process of stop-motion and aperiodic pattern formation, Restart Motion applies the process of repetition to generate a visual form that is far more complex and interesting than its constituent parts.
Classes
Thesis
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.
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