Category Archives: Project Development Studio

Mare

Laura Juo-Hsin Chen

An exploration journey of conscious dreams.

http://mare-the-dream.tumblr.com/

Description

“Are you sure you are awake? Are you sure you are not in a dream?”

It's a journey to embrace discomforts and explore the unknown. Maximizing the immersive experience with visual, audio, and physical interactions, Mare let users to challenge their comfort zone and take in the rare stimulus which exists in dreams but people often easily forget.

Classes

Project Development Studio

Mechanical Puppet

Dimelsa Medina

WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS?<br />
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Create an interactive animatronic that reflects the interaction between the humans and the machines.

http://www.dimelsamedina.com/ITPBlog/project-development-studio-mechanical-puppet/

Description

I have always been captivated by the conversion of motion and power that takes place within a machine and the way all the autonomous mechanisms form a whole and work together. By using a Kinect, a webcam, and a series of motors, I would like to give “life” to a puppet, and study the interaction of the audience/user with this object.

Classes

Automata: Telling Stories with Machines, Designing for Digital Fabrication, Project Development Studio

Online Wayfinding System

Salem Al-Mansoori

A Chrome extension that gives the user a better understanding of their location in a browsing session.

http://www.rbknrbkn.com/workandprogress/?cat=27

Description

The management of a browsing session can be greatly simplified through a map that the user can visually access at all times, representing the current website trail as rooms, grouping of rooms, and so on. The locations and sizes of the rooms can be used to signify further information: the time spent there, the relation of this location to the other contexts of the website/session, etc. Within each room, information about specific sections in the page can be added as peripheral visual elements.
The utility of such map is two fold: as a navigational aid, as well as a visualization tool for the user’s internet browsing habits.

Classes

Project Development Studio

Sonome ITP

Abe Rubenstein

A real-time noise map of the 2014 ITP Winter Show

http://aberubenste.in

Description

Sonome ITP is a real-time noise map of the 2014 ITP Winter Show. The map shows noise levels in each room of the venue, allowing for an at-a-glance summary of activity at the Show.

Noise is like air – we are completely immersed in it, yet often we don't notice it at all. If we paid more attention to the sounds around us, what would we discover about our physical environment?

Sonome ITP aims to offset the limitations of our ears and minds. By ourselves we can't monitor noise in more than one place at a time. Sonome ITP visualizes all noise in a given area, allowing for easy visual inspection of the aural state of an environment.

Classes

Project Development Studio

Face it

Rodrigo Narciso Gouveia da Silva

An installation that puts the visitor face to face with the experience of cyber bullying against gay people.

http://www.rodrigonarciso.com.br/blog/a-big-change-in-my-concept/

Description

“Face it” is a projection installation in which the user experiences how painful hearing an offensive word can be for gay people. Every time a new live tweet arrives, the actor's face in the projection reacts to it in a different way and the user hears the word on headphones. The idea is to put the public face to face with the victim, hearing the words and feeling their impact to the victim.

Classes

Project Development Studio