Category Archives: Projects

Daniel Shiffman, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing, Manxue Wang, Projects, Shan Jin, Tom Igoe

Taste Your Drawing!

Manxue Wang, Shan Jin

Taste Your Drawing!

http://www.manxuew.com/?p=376

Description

Project Introduction & Video

Project Process

Mapping your drawing to different kinds of drinks, and then make an Alcoholic beverages for you.

In this project , we want to make a cup of alcohol beverage by mixing the proportionate colors drinks according to the paintings in real time so as to offer a new way to appreciate audiences’ painting’s connotation. Different flavors in drinks may present people’s different feeling and may offer people totally different experiences to their own paintings.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

Greg Shakar, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Projects, T.K. Broderick

Wooden TouchPads

T.K. Broderick

The Wooden.TouchPads are wooden drums with added melodic and rhythmic functionality with the use of gated sine waves and noise.

http://www.tkbroderick.com/nime.html

Description

The Wooden TouchPad is both an acoustic instrument and an audio controller. Drum pads and trackpads are a great way to access a huge collection of sounds and trigger various media elements with a single tactile interface, but they themselves don’t contribute sound when played. This interface will produce the acoustic sounds of a wooden drum that are heard synchronously with it’s extended melodic functionality.

Classes

New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Arlene Ducao, Introduction to Physical Computing, Karthik Patanjali, Koen Holtkamp, Projects, Tom Igoe

Light Cycle

Koen Holtkamp, Karthik Patanjali

The 'LightCycle' is a unique lighting interface based around natural inputs from outside sources such as the light and temperature of a particular location as well as a way for the user to directly interact with their personal lighting environment.

http://www.koenholtkampitp.com/?p=193

Description

The 'LightCycle' is a unique lighting interface based around natural inputs from outside sources such as the light and temperature of a particular location as well as a way for the user to directly interact with their personal lighting environment. There are four individual settings, each of which have distinct parameters for the user to customize.

The 'Auto' mode reads the characteristics of your local outdoor environment via light and temperature sensors and then reacts to these elements by creating and inverse relationship to the actual natural light outside so when it becomes darker as the sun sets or clouds move in front of the sun the light indoors will become both brighter and warmer.

The 'Simulation' mode works similarly to ‘Auto’ but receives information from sensors placed in a remote location so if you are away from home you can get a sense of the light that your friends and family are currently experiencing or simply just experience the light in another part of the world.

The 'Cycle' mode is a reaction to the static nature of most lighting systems. A manual mode where the user sets the range of change in brightness and hue as well as the amount of time the change takes to occur. So for example, the user could set the cycle to change brightness over several hours if they wanted it to be more of a subliminal presence or a few minutes if they wanted to be more aware of the light changing over time.

The 'Floyd' mode creates a psychedelic light show based on input from an amplitude sensor. The light show reacts to the users choice of music to create a playful and hypnotic visual experience.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Physical Computing

Dan O'Sullivan, Introduction to Computational Media, Magdalena Kovarik, Projects

PicassoMe

Magdalena Kovarik

PicassoMe is a fun as well as obscure installation swapping peoples eyes and mouths in a live video stream – cubist Picasso like faces arise on the screen and can get captured immediately.

http://www.magdalenakovarik-itp.com/?p=416

Description

This in an application for a computers camera as well as for mobile devices. A Processing sketch is tracking the eyes and mouths of the people in front of the camera and swaps them constantly in a random fashion. On the video screen cubistic defragmented faces arise. Did you ever want to see through your boyfriends eyes or your mothers mouth? The more people are in front of the camera the more interesting are the group portraits. By hitting a key the image get saved. For the Winter Show I imagine an installation directly linked with a printer. The visitors could immediately print her favorite Picasso like picture for taking it away as an original souvenir of the Winter Show 2014.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis, Introduction to Physical Computing, Nicholas Hubbard, Projects

Historical Contusion

Nicholas Hubbard

Historical Contusion asks the question: when we physicalize, make visible the impact of silence around difficult topics, are we willing to engage, and stay engaged?

http://www.ndhubbard.com/itp/historical-contusion/

Description

This project is an durational performance and installation in which users are invited to read a primary historical text that contains difficult/troubling content (a massacre that occurred in Northern California in 1860). The action of a motor will be driving an axe that will hit the performer with the blunt end, repeatedly, over the course of the event, unless a user intervenes. The user's voice, as long as they are reading, stops the motor. The aim of the project is to interrogate what it means to share history, and to connect that history to the body/emotion through the use of technology (is there such a thing as cyborg history?).

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Craig Protzel, Jonathan Sparks, Mashups - Creating With Web APIs, Projects

VJenerate

Jonathan Sparks

VJenerate creates generative music videos using video snippets from Youtube based on user comments from SoundCloud.

http://vjenerate.com

Description

VJenerate is a web application that creates generative music videos for songs from SoundCloud. Combining the use of both the Soundcloud and Youtube APIs, a song's comments are used to search YouTube and the resulting video snippets are played back according to the song's underlying comment timestamp. In this way, the generated video represents an abstracted crowd sourced reaction to the song itself.

Classes

Mashups – Creating With Web APIs

Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis, Introduction to Physical Computing, Magdalena Kovarik, Projects, Songee Hahn

Felt Sound

Magdalena Kovarik, Songee Hahn

Build and feel the sounds while you play with colorful wooden blocks on an interactive mat!

http://www.sonihahn.com/pcomp/w8-9/

Description

There are a bunch of colorful wooden blocks on the top of a felt mat. While you place, stack, and knock down those blocks, you can make countless combinations of sounds in your own ways. Several sensors are embedded inside of the felt mat, and each sensor generates different types of sounds. As you place more blocks, more sound will be added in harmonious ways. The felt mat is specifically designed to turn an everyday object – the felt mat- into an unexpected sound playground for those who participate.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing

Comm Lab: Networked Media, Kaini Zhou, Lauren McCarthy, Projects

Mister Mister

Kaini Zhou

Mister Mister is a website documenting the stories between me and all the men I slept with, as a way to probe today's online dating scene, hookup culture, and the building and fading of interpersonal relationships in a contemporary urban environment from a young woman's perspective. The website encourages audience to think about their own stories and appreciate whoever wrote a story in their lives.

http://www.kainizhou.me/?p=171

Description

This website Mister Mister is a collection of individual profiles of guys I slept with. They might be my long-term relationship ex, or someone I met on Tinder. For each of them, I review the experience, give him an advice, and leave a note to myself. Viewers can write back to me if they think they are one of the guys or have slept with one of them.

I do not hope this project to be a brag about my sexual history. Instead, I take a closer look at people's mentality of dating, hooking up and having sex in general, and question myself on my growth as a woman. All the reviews are not graphic in any sense, because deep inside I think they are all interesting human beings. This is also a mark on myself to pause my online dating/hookup journey, and think about what I really need and want in this city at this age.

Classes

Comm Lab: Networked Media

Arielle Hein, Live Web, Projects, Shawn Van Every

Mirror Snaps

Arielle Hein

Mirror Snaps is a mirror "photobooth" that generates animated gifs and immediately posts them to a website for people to download and share.

http://www.coloringchaos.cc/mirror-snaps/

Description

This project is being developed as my final for Live Web, and would be a playful interactive addition to the winter show! My interest in designing the interaction around a mirror rather than a screen or camera is to hopefully capture a more expressive or unaffected image, and offer a seamless and enjoyable picture-taking experience. We all love to look at ourselves in the mirror – why not keep a record of this?

I am particularly interested in how the images will begin to tell a story over time, and how the piece will be utilized in a public space.

For the show, I would really love a space in the front near the elevator or in the hallway!

Classes

Live Web

Daniel Shiffman, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing, Marcelo Cespedes, Projects, Tom Igoe

Postural Awareness – Social Experiment

Marcelo Cespedes

Create awareness about poor posture, using a game.

http://www.marcesp.com/icmphysical-computing-final-project/

Description

Your posture and body alignment don’t have to be dramatically off to affect your function. I choose a game as a distraction to measure people's posture and create awareness about it. I'm documenting people's reaction after they found out that they were being under a test.

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS

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The user is asked to wear a vest in order to play a game only to discover it's an excuse to measure its posture and show him the kind of disease he could get if he continues in that position.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing