Archive for May, 2013


Guilherme Pena Costa

A sound-responsive, light-emitting, personal gadget that transmits a crowd's emotions in a sports game.

\"Fuleirinho\" is a LED device that responds to sound. The electronic gadget will have its first debut on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. \"Fuleirinho\" will first be used in a football game and stadium context, where the light will represent the crowd\'s emotions. The object has an embedded microphone...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, May 13th, 2013
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Allison Eve Zell

WHO BOOTH is an interactive installation that maps the aspirations of adolescent girls today to inspirational women throughout history, using custom software to merge the girls with their new heroines.

WHO BOOTH is essentially a repurposed photo booth housing an experience of music, text, and video in effort to connect girls with solid role models in a fun way. Artifacts are created to take the experience beyond the booth itself. A video of the girls portraying their new heroines can...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, May 13th, 2013
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Nicholas Johnson

Life of Trash is a series of experiments designed to reveal the hidden life of trash and help engage citizens in order to better understand the pervasiveness and impact of waste throughout urban societies.

Does anyone think about trash? Once we place something into the trash can, do we ever think of where the trash goes? What happens to trash after it gets picked up? How long does trash live after it has been collected?


Life of Trash attempts to uncover the...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, May 13th, 2013
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Amik Ahmad

ampulet is a system of digital solutions designed target people's concerns outside of the healthcare space, by solving the complimentary problems that exist within the healthcare “system”.

ampulet is a system of digital solutions designed target people\'s concerns outside of the healthcare space, by solving the complimentary problems that exist within the healthcare “system”. ...CONTINUE READING »
Monday, May 13th, 2013
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Sae-Wook Huh

Infinite State Automata is a platform where a story about the evolution of spiritual machines is told through an android application, open source telephony, kinetic sculptures and a dynamic web site. ...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
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Inessah Selditz

A designed and choreographed experience that uses playful procedures to challenge and be a counterpoint to our typical channels of communication which reflect increasing unfamiliarity and discomfort with direct intimacy.

My thesis is about creating an uncommon space for people to connect and an effort to de-regulate the digital and physical modes which we use to regulate our connection with others. The installation uses eye tracking to follow the path of two people\'s eyes as they sit across from each...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
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Matt London

My thesis sets out to create a video game that has a unique form of interaction between player and game. Unlike in most games where interactions are limited between players and computer-controlled characters, Minecraft Theater turns these computer-controlled characters into live actors, who can listen to and respond to the...CONTINUE READING »
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
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Robbie Tilton

An exploration of future interfaces through gesture-based interaction, environmental computation, and non-traditional displays.

It is a very exciting time for interfaces. Depth sensors are getting cheaper and more ubiquitous, innovations in display technologies allow for transparent screens, curved multi-touch surfaces, and autostereoscopic imagery. Mobile devices are becoming faster and cheaper, enabling new wearable computation devices like heads-up displays and smart watches....CONTINUE READING »

Luisa Covaria

Underground Streams is an interactive storytelling platform that provides a window for New York subway riders to observe and listen to their fellow commuters.

Every day more than five million people ride the New York City subway. The trains transport those who create the main fabric of the city: its people and their stories. The subway cars are unique spaces in which people from diverse backgrounds are in close physical contact on a daily...CONTINUE READING »

Yin Liu

Glyphcoder is an interactive tool that encourages viewers to playfully create their own language and notations

This installation is the last part of a series of studies aimed at re-interpreting pictorial language systems in the digital age. The study culminates in a translation of text into glyphs through a computer program that encodes new glyphs based on user interaction. This installation then brings the digital output...CONTINUE READING »