Category Archives: Christopher Kairalla

Christopher Kairalla, Jiwon Yoon, Projects, Redial: Interactive Telephony

Voice Selfie

Jiwon Yoon

Take voice selfie using low tech. When you call me, I will take a photo of your voice and send it to your phone.

http://www.jiwonyoonworks.com/?p=660

Description

A voice contains different information from text itself when people say something. We can feel someone’s feeling, status, mood from voice. As we have different faces, we all have different voices.

There are some phones that only exist for making a phone call. People can’t use internet with those kind of phones. Even some of cheap dumb phones don’t have any camera on them. Front camera is the optional feature for low cost phone because it can increase the cost.

This system allows users to take selfies without camera. It only relies on the basic function of telephone which is making a phone call. Asterisk gets user's voice information and python generates the image based on the voice components. Users will receive the image via MMS. If you have a dumb phone, this system is perfectly working for you.

Classes

Redial: Interactive Telephony

Christopher Kairalla, Projects, Ran Mo, Redial: Interactive Telephony

ITP Secret Sharing

Ran Mo

a redial SMS sharing project build in Ruby and twilio

Description

It is a fun, crowd participatory SMS sharing game. Everyone could share their funny story (it does not have to be secret) to the server and the server will randomly pick someone else's secret and send back to this person. Rating (for secret) and level (for user) involved in case any spamming behavior, which will affect the secret other users got

Classes

Redial: Interactive Telephony

Christopher Kairalla, Jaewoong Hwang, Projects, Redial: Interactive Telephony

Final Phontasy

Jaewoong Hwang

Be a heroic phone-wielding chicken slayer!

Description

Final Phontasy is a screen-based multiplayer cooperative game installed in a public space. Anybody can join the game simply by calling the number with their phone. All interaction can be done with number keys on phones, or DTMF tones. No smart phone nor data plan is required.
The game has classic 8-bit RPG battle mechanism and aesthetics. Up to four players fight together as a party against giant evil Chicken. Despite of simple mechanism, the game by design highly encourages people to cooperate. You never win with mindless attacks. Fun part is that, because it is meant to be installed in a public space, players need to communicate with strangers to win the game.
The game has level system. Each players' level data is stored in database. The more you win, the stronger you become. If you get strong enough, you'll have an honor to be on the leaderboard.

Classes

Redial: Interactive Telephony