Yifan Hu
How To Connect is an interactive installation that is a blending experience and examination of the physical and digital world.
http://cargocollective.com/yifanhu/How-To-Connect
Description
Classes
Readymades, Thesis
How To Connect
Zombie Self Awareness Tool Kit
Samuel Sadtler
The best way to bring yourself to awareness and subvert the current apocalypse.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFxrQd7-zw&index=2&list=PLp1AzLEITCFxnF3zXRn5ZErynB5Vg5Ynr
Description
Exploring ways to reflect on our relationships with our phones and ask the question. What can life be? Featured projects include: Shakie: the best selfie app for blurry photos, Chance of Rainbows app: Whats better than checking the weather? Rainbows!, Post Texts: for sending physical text messages, Crete: the worlds first connected brink for disconnecting but still getting notifications so you can sleep at night, and Zombie Crossing: a simple update to dated civic infrastructure.
Classes
Readymades, Thesis
Breathe In
Michael Weber
"Breathe In" is an interactive story in virtual reality, telling the tale of a young man who learns to breathe underwater. As part of my ITP thesis, I explored how to tell a compelling story in VR that could elicit emotions powerful enough to bring back into the real world.
http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/thesis2016/mhw322/
Description
“Breathe In” takes the principles of storytelling and adapts them to VR, exploring whether narnrative’s ability to create emotional response can be magnified through a more immersive medium. Personal experience generates the strongest emotions, and VR may possess the power to tell stories that offer something closer to personal experience.
The story centers around Alex, a new father grappling with boredom. When he learns he can breathe underwater, he begins secretly escaping into an underwater world for longer and longer. On the night of his daughter’s first birthday, he makes a choice with tragic consequences.
My goal is for viewers to feel as if they themselves experienced Alex’s story, and to interpret and internalize his fate.
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Future Waterfront
Crystal Brusch
Sea levels will rise more than six feet in the next hundred years. This project uses augmented reality to visualize climate change and lets you plan ahead for a glorious waterfront home. Will what you see inspire you to change the future?
https://itp.nyu.edu/thesis2016/project/crystal-brusch
Description
Sea levels will rise more than six feet in the next hundred years and South Florida is especially at risk. The region is a canary for the United States, but the area’s plans to survive climate change are out of touch. Miami Beach recently started to raise roadways, but a two-foot boost in height will not keep the roads dry through the century. This project aims to get people to think long-term and start a hard dialogue between residents and politicians. The first part engages residents through a satirical mortgage application while educating them about the spatial and temporal threats from sea level rise. The second part encourages residents to visually map future flooding with augmented reality and demand infrastructure that prevents or lessens flooding.
Classes
Social Hacking: Appropriating Interaction Technologies, Social Hacking: Appropriating Interaction Technologies, Thesis
Crispicotura
Thea Rae
I’ve created mechanical creatures that wiggle, wobble, and sway. They are a new species that evolved in our tech-saturated and sedentary world. These creatures are my attempt to help machines experience a state of ease and playfulness, and to inspire whimsy in those around them.
http://thea-rae.tumblr.com/tagged/thesis
Description
These creatures have currently evolved into three different species–Juleractis, Maratuglans, and Aureiladilldium–each with its own anatomy. Their presence and emotional qualities are directly related to their form and method of actuation . They all drink the life juice of electricity, but each metabolizes it in different ways: magnetic fields, vibration, oscillating motors, the push and pull of springs. With each evolution they grow into more complex organisms capable of new varieties of wiggles. And like most creatures, they grow old and weary with time until eventually their joints weaken, leaving their still, skeletal structures behind.
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p5.playground
Yining Shi
p5.playground is an interactive debug tool for p5js which allows people to manipulate shapes on canvas in real time and visually understand a lot of the math that goes behind drawing stuff on canvas. This tool exists as a live coding p5 editor.
Description
Designers or people who are familiar with graphic user interfaces think about lines and locations differently from mathematicians and programmers. From example, How do people draw a curve?
Designers are really good at using tools like Illustrator. It has a lot of nifty interface features to draw like – rulers, guides, grid system, and we can also manipulate shapes (move, resize, rotate them) on the canvas in real time.
On the other hand, with many code-based drawing tools, like p5 or processing, we usually start with, estimating of the coordinate system in our brain, and then guess our way out of the initial x, y position to draw something. After executing the program we see how close we get and we probably need to edit the code again. All this seems fine as long as we have a basic knowledge of the coordinate system and are experienced with code-based drawing tools. But people who are beginners often find this process overwhelming and adding frame based animations to such drawings becomes even more complicated.
However, using computation to make art is much more powerful in terms of how complex and dense a digital piece of art can be made. So I felt like there should be a way to have a WYSIWYG tool that allows us to code faster, better by helping us understand the code visually.
With p5.playground, when the playground mode is turned on, people can –
1. See rulers and guidelines on the canvas, and shows objects’ and mouse’s x, y position in real time.
2. Manipulate the shapes on the canvas in real time and see the code updated immediately.
In addition, the web-based editor is also a live coding environment that allows people to see the outcome of their code in real time; which can shorten and enhance the programming progress.
Classes
Hacking the Browser, Thesis
MetQuest
Sweta Mohapatra
A mobile augmented reality game based in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.teletechnophiliac.com/metquest
Description
MetQuest is a mobile augmented reality game built for the Met's Greek and Roman Exhibit. Players become Greek heroes trying to achieve immortality. They must “talk” to the statues in the collection using their phones by selecting conversation choices. Their choices dictate how the story unfolds, so every player gets an individual experience.
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Surface Patterns
Koen Holtkamp
What can we see through touch and feel through light?
http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/thesis2016/kh2212/
Description
’Surface Patterns’ is an installation that alters our perception of space by activating subtle subconscious sensations through haptic stimulation to move the audience gradually through a range of states. It consists of a square white two tiered platform. As the individual stands on the platform the system comes alive. A series of precomposed stereo vibrations begin to sound from below their feet and two rings of white light emanate around them as sympathetic resonance to reinforce the movement of the vibrations. Beginning from a place of quiet contemplation the waves move slowly towards more intense interference patterns transferring the kinetic energy up through the body to create a dynamic sense of movement and directly affect a person’s consciousness.
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Sun Chaser
Melissa Jinu Kang
Our modern metropolitan lifestyle contributes to a growing population trend towards vitamin D deficiency. SunChaser is an "Internet of Things" application that gathers your sunlight exposure data from a wearable and translates that into a wall mounted lamp.
https://itp.nyu.edu/thesis2016/project/melissa-jin-woo-kang
Description
SunChaser encourages people to become more conscious of the benefits of sunlight and the healthy amount of sunlight they need. Several features of geography and modern lifestyle have converged to limit average exposure to sunlight and contribute to a growing population trend toward vitamin D deficiency. Those affected the most usually live in a busy metropolitan areas in northern latitudes. SunChaser is an “Internet of Things” application that responds to your sunlight exposure by gathering data from a wearable and translating that data into a wall hanging lamp installation.
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Ruby's Pets
Constantine Koumoussis
Ruby's Pets is a mobile application that teaches logic to kids of ages 5-7 years old.
Description
This is the project I worked on for my thesis. My objective was to teach kids the basic logic operators (and, or, not) through a game. The theme of Ruby's Pets is a petstore, which is owned by a red parrot called Ruby. The objective of the game is for the user to help Ruby assist the customers. Ruby asks questions that have to do with logic,and the user has to get them right.
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Thesis