Imagined Location is a collection of expressive tools that allow for the generation and alteration of geographic imagery. These tools highlight the rich, complex visual language of aerial photography and satellite imagery and encourage the examination and manipulation of natural, political, and man-made borders, patterns, and constructs. This interaction, in turn, questions the relationship between this imagery, its practical representation in mapping, and resulting effect on geographic perception.

I want to arise the awareness that everyone needs to feel they\’ve been needed, and it\’s ok to admit we\’re needy sometimes.

By doing that, I made two \”needy objects\”, they need the owner\’s attentions to make them work. One is an alarm, to stop the alarm, the owner needs to hug it. Another one is a speaker, the volume will go crazy when the owner is not around. The owner needs to pet it to make it calms down.

Plott is a platform for experiencing location based stories. For Plott,this is a narrative tied to an outdoor place, such as a building, park or street intersection. Many of these places have a history to them that are unknown to passers by. Conversely, many times we read stories without experiencing the physical environment that they were set in. Plott seeks to bridge this gap through two channels. Primarily it provides on-site, on-demand stories to the user’s mobile phone while they are at the story location. These stories are delivered in the form of audio and images, allowing the user to be immersed and explore the physical environment while being told the narrative. Alternatively it provides a browser-based experience of the physical environment using Google Street View technology. Google provides a database of compelling panoramic street level imagery, which can be virtually explored by using mouse and keyboard actions. This gives the user freedom to navigate through the virtual street environment while still experiencing the audio. Not only is Plott a platform for experiencing content, it is also a platform for generating content. Plott provides online tools to record audio and images, as well as geo-tag them with locations. This enables authors to record their own location-based stories and then share them through the same physical and virtual channels of distribution.

The clothes we wear separate our naked skin from the outside world. As such, they also serve as a medium which influences our communication. What we choose to wear on a night out, or a uniform one wears everyday affects the way we interact. By adding new capabilities to our clothes, we are modifying an integral medium of our communication. First of all, we must be aware of the changes this will bring, as Marshall McLuhan brought to our attention in Understanding Media. Next we must release our imaginations to think of new ways to communicate.

Enabling Communication takes a critical look at ways we are modifying how we communicate by using interactive garments and accessories. Multiple projects are proposed for exhibition in several themes: normalizing, enhancing and controlling. The thesis experience will culminate in the proposal of Enabling Communication to museums internationally, and ideally the exhibition\’s eventual realization.

It\’s a quirky world of investigation — a cooperative, web-based platform that serves as a creative outlet and repository of meta-history through real world stories, physical experiments, and imagination. In Gumshuland, the sneaker object holds agency. Hopefully, production and consumption patterns will find new environmentally sustainable and socially responsible flows.

As with many young non-profit organizations, StreetWise has encountered difficulties obtaining publicity and generating a consistent source of revenue. I identified three seminal goals to aid StreetWise in accomplishing its mission: to develop a website with written and photographic documentation of the organization to promote StreetWise as well as eventually accept online donations; to obtain 501(c)3 status as a non-profit organization in the United States; and to spearhead new fundraising campaigns to financially support StreetWise.

The Mighty Braaain is a place where you can come and be fascinated by stories of neurological phenomena; some weird, all wonderful. It is also a space in which you can experience things that will make you revel in and question the boundaries of your body and perception.

Radius is comprised of a mobile application and a wearable interface that allows for the subtle delivery of contextually relevant information to a given user. Complementing internet enabled phones, this project aims to decentralize the role of the traditional mobile phone by creating a specialized interface in order to alleviate fundamental usability issues that have arisen with the increasingly capable smart phones of the present day.

The wearable component of this project which is worn on the wrist of the user allows for an \’at a glance\’ awareness of customizable streams of information.

The goal of this project is to address the hegemony of the attention scope imposed by mobile phones of the present day.

WikiPaths is a hyperlink scavenger hunt game played on Wikipedia.org in which players try to find the shortest path between two, seemingly unconnected, encyclopedic entries. WikiPaths is not a separate website, but rather a casual game superimposed on Wikipedia itself. The game is written in JavaScript and runs as a Greasemonkey Firefox Add-on, allowing users to start a new game at their leisure as they also browse the encyclopedia. WikiPaths fuses normal browsing behavior with casual gaming, and explores how re-contextualizing an existing site can yield vital information about the connectivity of information and how people navigate information space.