Archive for April, 2011
Avatar is an online Artificial Intelligent Social Network System, where users can register, setup and train their own online chatbots -- Avatar. The Avatars will take all the information of users’ SNS sites (like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare) and analyze them. Based on the SNS data and a series of... CONTINUE READING »
"Ode to Sea" is a collective story-telling book sculpture that represents the relationships between individuals and their community.
With different pages created by different members of ITP, the book invites readers to experience collective impressions in various ways. The pages are made of blue and semi-translucent materials that layer the contents into a visual palimpsest. Touching a page triggers sounds and when pressed together, sounds are... CONTINUE READING »
Light, Sound, Text: Semiotics of a Technological Sublime is a site-specific installation that explores language encoding and mysticism through the early history of telecommunications.
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse transmitted four words from Washington to Baltimore: “What hath God wrought,” transforming the relationship of communication to presence. The selection of Numbers 23:23 points to a spiritually charged cultural response to telegraphy and the channels it opened. I’m interested in layering upon this history... CONTINUE READING »
Experiments in Immersion aims to explore techniques that elicit truly immersive behavior in readers and players of interactive narratives and narrative-based games. ... CONTINUE READING »
Ever since Albert Einstein published his theories on Relativity in the early 1900\’s, the world has concerned itself with much with the fantastic aspects of what his theories mean and could possibly foretell.
Einstein\’s Relativity gives us a new understanding of time. It is confusing, but, sparing important details, it\’s the perceived slowing of time as determined by an observer who is in relative motion with respect to the source of that time.
It\’s probably not the easiest to explain without experiencing it yourself. So, I set out to build a craft, a craft that would travel near the speed of light. My preliminary sketches yielded the perfect shape for this craft, a cube-like vehicle with a folded door and flaps for entry and protection, respectively.
Well, two months later it is built according to my strict plans. I am \”warming\” it up, to get it ready for it\’s first test flight.
Odd,…it seems to be heating up too quickly. I can observe some violent shaking of my room. My books are falling off the shelves, and it\’s hardr to typee wellllll……..c,..lzkdm./,v,./kllvhkh ;l lKNS HHELPOH HELP!
An open source real time mobile sensor platform with applications in environmental, health and social justice.
Sensor data has the power to tell stories that change the way we think and how decisions are made, from every day choices to important international policy. This platform aims to make the process of collecting and analyzing this data more accessible to students, researchers, and citizen scientists. It accomplishes... CONTINUE READING »
Beyond finger presses, are there new ways we can use touchscreen
technology to interface with tangible objects?
Over the past three years there has been an explosion in the use of
capacitance touchscreens in smartphones and tablets like the iPhone
and iPad. Capacitance touchscreens work by detecting the electrical
signals from your fingers as they come into contact with the screen.
Finger presses can be simulated... CONTINUE READING »
An exploration into the effectiveness of robotic gestures and movement as feedback and communication mechanisms.
I set out to explore movement as a way of communicating and interacting with robots. But not so much from our movement…but the robot\'s. Must robots need to look like us? Sound like us to establish a link? Is that even the best way to communicate? We are wired to... CONTINUE READING »
A smarter tool to collect feedbacks and thoughts is on demand for the social network era.
Qables.net does that.
You kept emailing everyone asking for their inputs about your great ideas? Pulling up surveys for your work but feeling difficult getting people on board? A new web application is here to help. Building your own simple but efficient feedback collectors. We call them the Qables, Q for Quick, Quest... CONTINUE READING »
The Digit is a virtual sculpture of George Washington's index digit located in Union Square, NYC. It can be viewed with a custom iPhone app available at the App Store.
The Digit responds to two public art works located in Union Square - the statue of George Washington (the first public sculpture in New York since the statue of King George III) and Metronome - a recent installation about time that occupies 3 building facades just south of the square.... CONTINUE READING »
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