Category Archives: Projects

Adarsh Kosuru, Alon Chitayat, Always On, Always Connected, Projects, Shawn Van Every

Dot 2 Dot

Alon Chitayat, Adarsh Kosuru

"Dot 2 Dot" is a collaborative & mobile drawing app that lets you sketch in the air and share your 3d drawing with others. Users can then navigate around your 3d line drawing by using "Augmented Reality" technology.

http://itp.animishmish.com/itp/2014/05/05/speech-of-light-app/

Description

“Dot 2 Dot” is an homage to the pioneers of “Light Drawing”.

It utilizes the sensors of a smart phone to capture, share and present a 3d motion in space, breaking the physical barrier of the 2d canvas.

Picasso’s “Light Drawings” (1949) is series of long exposure photographs. These experiments of light and motion were part of a collaborative work between Picasso and Gjon Mili, a photographer and light innovator. Picasso's “air drawing” formed any new quality to his line – the recording of his motion in space.

This remarkable experiment produced images that reshape the traditional 2d drawing into a 3d thread sculpture. They are for some extend an analog form of GIF animations as the hold a sequence of moments in each photo.

This photography technique served as a view finder to unveil an invisible layer of reality.

The Technology:

“Speech of light serves as a messaging platform were 3d sketches replace text, video or image. A user presses a button and records the motion of his phone by using accelerometer and Gyro data. He then sends the 3d position data to a server

Classes

Always On, Always Connected

Mack Howell, Nancy Hechinger, Projects, Thesis

Trajectory

Mack Howell

My thesis project, an app that livestreams video when the phone's sensors are highly activated

http://trajectory.camera

Description

Trajectory is an experiment to find out what a smartphone sees when traumatic events happen to it — e.g. it's dropped, it overheats, it encounters g-forces. Its own sensors trigger streaming video, live imagery, that's then uploaded to a website.

Classes

Thesis

Kathleen Wilson, Projects, Thesis, Youjin Shin

AQUA-BRIDGE

Youjin Shin

A web based smart data management platform for monitoring water quality and creating a crowd-sourced world water quality map

http://www.aqua-bridge.org/

Description

Tackling drinking water issues in developing countries with well filters has largely failed due to the limited field data on how successful the filters have been in reducing disease. Part of the problem has been ineffective communication between filter users in local villages and the project managers monitoring the filters. AQUA-BRIDGE will develop a streamlined system for logging water quality and the data visualization will be developed for project managers to use in data analysis and the public to view on the web. In addition, AQUA-BRIDGE offers the water quality kits so the public can also have the opportunities to test their own water. The aggregated data from the public will create the world water quality database and it will be shared through visualization in real-time.

Classes

Thesis

Eamon O'Connor, Governing Dynamics of Software: The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages, Hellyn Teng, Projects, Ramsey Nasser

beatlang

Hellyn Teng, Eamon O’Connor

Unique way to explore program language design by letting users physically and rhythmically build their own code.

http://vimeo.com/94914103

Description

beatlang is an experimentation in programming language design as we have discussed in the Governing Dynamics of Software course, exploring alternate possibilities with how code can be written. This project seeks to bring a physical interactivity to programming. We naturally use our sense of touch, hearing and eyesight, and why not explore the possibility of designing a language that utilizes these senses?

The idea of beatlang is to generate a type of rhythmic language, letting the users create their program by physically tapping out a rhythm on multiple, modular midi drum pad surfaces. The rhythm pattern represents the source code, with Max/Msp as its host language. A possibility in the program is to be able to have the data call on itself, generating a recursive rhythmic output.

beatlang lets people explore programming in an exciting and unique way by physically interacting with their code, and also in the process creating a sound experiment.

Classes

Governing Dynamics of Software: The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages

Always On, Always Connected, Chin-Hsuan Wu, Projects, Shawn Van Every, Yu Ji

FameUp(Android App)

Chin-Hsuan Wu, Yu Ji

It is an universal and super powerful alarm that you have multiple ways to turn it off — if failed, get famous in your social network, or purchase a shame shield.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_xV8-7po12_rH_1MG1VmtjkWLbFcwi9yBe4d5fbTky0/edit#slide=id.g17e95685d_10

Description

It is an universal and super powerful alarm that you have multiple ways to turn it off (will include body movements and/or typing)– if failed, get famous in your social network, or purchase a shame shield.

Classes

Always On, Always Connected

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.

Classes

Thesis

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

Katherine Dillon, Kelly Saxton, Kyle Greenberg, Projects, User Experience Design

Fish In The Hewitt

Kyle Greenberg, Kelly Saxton

An interactive way to explore and fish into the Cooper Hewitt Museum's enormous collection

http://bit.ly/FishyCoopHew

Description

——-This is apart of the UX Lab: A Journey Into The Cooper Hewitt——-

The Cooper Hewitt Museum approached Katherine Dillon's UX class with the challenge of designing an interactive experience that will get visitors excited about learning about the Cooper Hewitt's collection. Using the theme of fish, Kelly Saxton and Kyle Greenberg designed and prototyped an interactive experience that let's visitors learn about the collection through a site specific installation of capturing photos of swimming silhouettes of fish that are imprinted with different pieces of the Cooper Hewitt Collection.

Classes

User Experience Design