Currently, the Internet is rampant with user generated content and personal documentation. Users upload their pictures to online photo sharing sites such as Flickr, post their activities to the micro-blogging platform Twitter, and track their “friends” and associations on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. This is just an abbreviated list of the kind of dynamic connections individuals are making between their own personal lives and the Internet.
What MoodJar attempts to answer, is whether there is a place or use for entering pure emotions into this technological mix. MoodJar at its most fundamental level is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to record their emotions over time. Its purpose is to provide a way for users to better understand the evolution of their own emotions.

The core existence of MoodJar is a website home base. Here, users can quickly make a mood entry. Each entry consists of a rating that is scaled form -4 to +4 with 0 being neutral. The scale is purposefully limited to create consistency in tracking over time. The second most important portion of each mood entry are tags – a comma delimited list of keywords associated with the given mood. Using a taxonomy system serves to make input quick and succinct, while making output meaningful and simple to comprehend. The last portion of the mood entry is a field where users can leave small notes or reminders about the mood they are entering.

The data input into MoodJar is accessible via the archive portion of the site. Here users can filter their moods by year, month or day. The archive provides a way for users to look for patterns and put their mood in context by streaming in other data from applications such as Flickr or Twitter.

I am working to explore the relationship between text and images. I am interested in taking famous works like Romeo and Juliet or war and peace, and translating it to a series of diagrammed sentences that are able to be translated back into the text with careful viewing. I am interested in using user generated photos from flickr to make text into photos. I started looking into this as a tool for live generation of this text from user generated sentences. However, after looking at this from a photographic point of view I think it would be more appropriate as a printed work off screen that can be looked at for longer periods over time.

In times where the search for love is taking over by the search of sex, intimacy captured by a hidden camera reveals general confusions on life and goals in a truth flavor.

Miracle is a 2 year old boy learning to walk on his prosthetic legs and feet. He loves balls and Barney. This game is designed to motivate him to play and practice the use of his prosthetics. The game consists of a basketball hoop with a screen in the back board. The ball gets thrown in the hoop, a flash program keeps score and rewards him after a certain amount of baskets. With a lot of input of his physical therapists, this game targets their objectives while being entertaining to Miracle.

From the time you wake up in the morning to eating, walking, even sitting at a desk, you are generating energy. What if we could harness and harvest our actions, turn our comings and goings into an unconscious power plant? In my thesis, I am exploring the potential these mundane actions have to produce the electricity for the low power devices that supplement our lifestyles. My first investigation is focused on doors. In an office building of just 2,000 workers (like Tisch) entry doors are opened at least 6 times a day, 12,000 times. I have created a prototype for an add-on for hinged doors that generates electricity each time it is opened and closed. There is a mechanism to store this electricity, measure what is produced over time, save that data on a sever and then be able to dynamically graph and monitor its progress from a website. The stored electricity can then be used for any of the buildings off grid needs, such as emergency sign-age, security cameras or lighting.

DJ is such a important role of dance music since 1906. Unfortunately most of the DJ don\’t have a chance to to manipulate music with gestures because DJ electronic instrument are mostly just knobs and buttons. With Groovy Hand, the new musical instrument, DJ can easily manipulate songs with gestures, therefore audience can easily understand what DJ is doing on the stage. Also, the audience feedback sound is highly used in [Groovy Hand] to create interactive performance.

I am interested in an exploration of how data about human proximity and reputation correlates to and influences a social network, and how this information is processed from both an egocentric and sociocentric perspective. Can a social area network be constructed within a physical social sphere that understands node to node relationships and reputations?

Users fill out an online survey and are placed in a particular category based on their answers. When they subsequently enter a participating venue, the service initiates. If a match is nearby, both parties are alerted via their mobile device and have the option to accept or reject communication based on a profile picture and the simple fact that they may be compatible.

\”Afterimage – Hide and Sick\” is one of the latest piece among series of the \”Afterimage\” project. The new challenge here is using less iconic images as original image but giving indirect information to force audiences\’ brian to search any details of the original image in their memories to fill in.

Our cities have obstructed our ability to see the stars. CityGaze asks users to use landmarks in their own lives (such as parks, buildings, and crossroads) as stars and constellations to create a new way of viewing, navigating, and imagining their city.