Archive for November, 2010
An application that shows students checking-ins around school around a big clock.
As a big community ITP students forms, we would love to have a place showing real-time social networking info, for keep closely-connected, or just for fun. Location-based service like 4sq and google latitude users would be the ideal example and first prototype for real-time personal info sharing without much annoyance... CONTINUE READING »
A self-contained virtual rock band for any musician who's ever been stood up or bailed on.
Jilted is a virtual rock band, composed of projected video on screens behind a live performer. It was created out of frustration, after being left in the lurch by flaky musicians, who failed to show up for rehearsals or gigs. This iteration of Jilted features a keyboardist and guitarist character,... CONTINUE READING »
Air Mash-up is a new DJ interface that enables DJs to perform using theremin-like gestures. The device itself is composed of numerous proximity sensors that are arranged in an array, each one controlling a different sound channel, effect, or filter.
WebCatting is an interactive cat toy thats allows users to remotely control a laser pointer by using a webcam and an Arduino microprocessor through a web interface.
Our pets go hours without stimulation, yet people spend hours online watching animal webcams. WebCatting combines the two, giving people the opportunity to play a game with an animal over a web interface. WebCatting allows the person on the computer to remotely play with their lonely and bored cat sitting... CONTINUE READING »
In the future, consumers will choose and control their favorite visual images by human emotions
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In the past, producers sent message to consumers directly. In the future, consumers will choose and control their favorite visual images by human emotions. It will be big change in broadcasting communication field.
For instance, when you watch horror movies, you would like watch more fearful or horror... CONTINUE READING »
Performance tool that creates the visual narrative through the audio (voice/instrument) being played
This project allows the performer to generate a visual that reacts to the audio that is being performed. Different parameters of the drawing (hue, saturation, color, thickness of the lines, trajectory of those lines, content of the immage revealed..)will be controlled by the dominant frequency of the input, volume of... CONTINUE READING »
Photo Plus allows users to record the story of a printed photo, save that story somewhere safe, then retrieve or add to it later.
I have designed a system that lets a user take a physical photograph, identify it to a computer, add then digital information that refers to that photo (digital audio). Later they can use the PhotoPlus system or a web service to retrieve audio/information related to photo.
* The photograph... CONTINUE READING »
Flying lantern to send people's sweetest wishes and love to the heaven.
Inspiration: In ancient China, sky lanterns were strategically used in wars. However later on, non-military applications were employed as they became popular with people at carnivals. These lanterns were subsequently incorporated into big festivals--sky lanterns are more like the messengers to carry people’s wishes and love to the heaven. CONTINUE READING »
A simplifying visual explanation of how we got into a complex predicament: the obesity epidemic.
This is a project for Expression Frameworks for Information Visualization
Quantaproject uses static and dynamic visual representations to tell the story of a complex problem in understandable terms. The obesity epidemic is a result of policy, technical, and biological factors, all combining to lead to a detrimental condition for the public, and a crisis for the health system. ... CONTINUE READING »
rethinking damian ortega’s work – reconfiguring objects. A record player that plays back its inner workings and memories
We decided to use an old record player to interpret Ortega’s work and to explore the idea of fragmenting and displaying and objects through its parts. Through different video sources we want to create a journey inside the device that will dissarm it and create a new understanding of it. ... CONTINUE READING »
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