Archive for April, 2011


Emeri Audra Yarnoff

Although the benefits of assistive technology for people with physical disabilities are extensively recognized, the study and implementation of assistive technology in the mental health field have been relatively discounted. In an effort to address this situation directly, my thesis project examines the possibilities for developing effective and affordable assistive...CONTINUE READING »
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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Julio Terra

Emote is a platform for tracking my emotions and creating high-resolution visualizations that explore sources of meaning and fulfillment in my life.

Emotions are important. They strongly affect how we experience reality by influencing our perception, choices and actions. Emotions are also messy and hard to measure. They are highly subjective short-lived phenomena created by interactions between physiological and cognitive processes in response to our psychological, social and physical context.

Emote...CONTINUE READING »
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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Cecilia Zuniga

NurtuRings proposes new possibilities of interaction between wearer and adornment through a line of rings that require care and maintenance.

NurtuRings is an exploration of how the wearer and observer respond to jewelry that requires maintenance.It attempts to create a tangible experience from an ephemeral connection through artifacts made from living elements: plants and wood.

Its aims to inspire a meditation on themes such as transformation, impermanence,symbiosis,life cycles and...CONTINUE READING »
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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Peiyu Liu

ThingMuseum is a web service to keep track of your stuff and share the information with your friends.

Everyone collects something in certain degree. ThingMuseum is a web service to keep track of them and share it with your friends. It helps users to organize their stuff. More importantly, by sharing such information, the service becomes a stage for user to display their collection, express their taste and...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
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Steve Aquillano

Splink gives students access to professionals who are excited to reveal their personal journey to success and aid in the next generation’s career discovery process.

Splink is a website that applies a question and answer format to the process of career discovery. When high school students turn their attention to college and future careers they often rely on the guidance of counselors and parents. The problem with this scenario is that counselors only fully understand...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
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Lucas Zavala

A music production application that offers a unique, user-friendly environment enabling a user to focus on creativity instead of technology.

Digital music creation has come a very long in recent years with the development of more and more sophisticated interfaces all accessible from your personal computer. But there is an inherent problem with this development in that it continues to emulate old systems of music creation that began before computers...CONTINUE READING »

Igal Nassima

Surveillance Pet reveals and questions the evolution of digital map services via a set of iconography, created live and superimposed onto Google Satellite Maps.

Surveillance Pet is a custom built drone designed to track a single person and live transmit video with geolocation data to a web server. Transmitted video is then analyzed frame by frame to create a new set of overlays onto google map services. Superimposition of the live tiles in effect...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
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Tamar Ziv

IKEA is a series of generative audio-visual performances that explores the relationships between shape and sound, symbolic meaning and abstract complexity.

Ikea is a synesthetic musical platform in which, each of it\'s permutations explores various themes of perception, and symbolic representation.

The driving force of Ikea the use of abstract morphologies of both spatial and musical components into 3 conceptual and unique audio visual landscapes, which are performed live....CONTINUE READING »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
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Keng-Fu Chu

iPad party game for family and friends that can be played together on a shared multi-touch screen.

Robots live up in the clouds. Sometime they might miss a step and accidentally fall down from the sky. The player’s goal is to rescue as many robots as possible and help them fly back home.

The goal of this project is to learn more about developing a collaborative...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
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Andrea Wolf

The memory of the world is experienced through objects, images and their traces.

Little Memories is a series of tiny, intimate video installations using super 8 home movies and found-footage. Little mock-ups and found objects are combined with projections and video mapping to create intimate souvenirs that reflect on how fleeting memories are brought back to us. Each piece is a self-contained object...CONTINUE READING »
Friday, April 15th, 2011
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