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American Zeitgeist Almanac

Kathleen S Temrowski

Take a trip through the cultural ether of the past.

http://katietworks.com/AZA

Description

Through the American Zeitgeist Almanac I wanted users to be able to explore different years of American history. Nowadays when people want to know what happened in one year they look up wikipedia and read through events. But I have always found that a visual experience is much more intuitive and powerful. By having a collage of cultural touchstones (including the most popular song of every year playing), you can compare each year and finally understand the difference between 1954 and 1956!

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

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Extraterrestrial AI

Jamie Ruddy

Did you ever talk to an alien? Now is your chance to chat with an extraterrestrial and ask him anything you like.

http://jamieruddyitp.com/alien/

Description

PETI, the Institute for the Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, finally succeeds. By beaming out a signal through an array of radio telescopes, Dr. Andrej Raspinofski receives word back. But instead of hearing from a planet 22-light-years away, he is contacted by an alien who is broken down near Saturn. The extraterrestrial is willing to talk while he fixes his spaceship.

My Extraterrestrial AI is an exploration into interactive storytelling. I wanted to build a fictional character the user can fully interact with instead of a traditional narrative that is read or viewed. Over time I hope to build this character into a more fully developed “alien” and give the story a character arc. For now, please enjoy a fun chat with him.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Fake Painter

Xingjian An

Fake Painter is a drawing machine to help normal people to be able to draw abstract sketch as an artist.

http://www.xingjianan.com/2015/12/07/pcom-final-fake-painter/

Description

Fake Painter is a drawing machine to help normal people to be able to draw abstract sketch as an artist. The machine use laser diode to draw picture ,which is captured by the Kinect, and ask users to draw on paper by following the track of laser.

Classes

Intro to Fabrication, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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True Love Tinder Robot

Nicole He

Literally put your love life in a robot's hands.

http://nicole.pizza/itp/tag/tinder-robot/

Description

The True Love Tinder Robot will find you love, guaranteed. With Tinder open, you put your phone down front of the robot hand. Then you place your own human hands on the sensors. As you are looking at each Tinder profile, the robot will read your true heart's desire through the sensors and decide whether or not you are a good match with that person based on how your body reacts. If it determines that you're attracted to that person, it will swipe right. If not, it will swipe left. Throughout the process, it will make commentary on your involuntary decisions.

In a time when it's very normal for couples to meet online, we trust algorithms on dating sites to find us potential partners. Simultaneously, we use consumer biometric devices to tell us what's going on with our bodies and what we should do to be healthy and happy. Maybe it's not a stretch to consider what happens when we combine these things.

This project explores the idea that the computer knows us better than we know ourselves, and therefore it has better authority on who we should date than we do. In a direct way, the True Love Tinder Robot makes the user confront what it feels like to let computers make intimate decisions for us.

The robot is built with an Arduino, servos, a text-to-speech module, LEDS, a couple sheets of metal acting as galvanic skin response sensor, a bunch of wires, a box, and a speaker. The code is available on Github. You can also find my in-progress documentation on my ITP blog.

This is my final project for my Intro to Computational Media and Intro to Physical Computing classes during fall of 2015 at NYU ITP. Special thanks to my teachers, Tom Igoe and Lauren McCarthy.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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VRTRIP

Corbin Ordel

VRTRIP is the experience of self reflection, isolation, truth, and self actualization.

https://youtu.be/VBDwHX1hlGw

Description

ROAD TRIPPERS! Follow your heart friends! Get in the car! Do you have any gas or peanut money? Whatever, it doesn't matter. Holy shit, that- You're Tot's friend right? Good thing we saw you here, we were about to split for the beach. “honestly tho, do u kno this prsn?” Anyway– oh, well, we don't know when were coming back honestly – we're just hopped up freaked out hippies! It's righteous! I bought these pink slacks from a thrift store the other days, only cost me 10 buckaroos!. I think I saw you outside Drones Club last week, right? You were looking pretty cute. I think you're Blake's age right? Are you also in Cyberactive Media Studies at U of M? That's what someone told me… Anywys, it's weird that we like know each other and also because your Jayy's little bro's age, also. I guess thats what happens in a small scene. What are you working on these days, we talked last weekend, what you did that day and you said that you had a good day, that you woke up and wrote a bit, then you got lunch and then you described the lunch in lots of detail and that you got a really good coffee and that the lunch was really yummy. Honestly I was really happy to talk to you, you seem interesting forsure, “but I'm not sure if your my type, to be honest I have no idea who you are but you seem different than most of the people who hang out around here”. DO you know Amanda? oh god, yea she's way older and from Alberta, she talks so much shit about everyone. It's cool if you go back home during the summer, we all do.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Computational Media

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A Flash in the Pan

Yiting Liu, Yue Hu

Grabbing the star and evoking magic effects.

Description

The basic idea of the project is to evoke lives by grabbing the falling stars and dragging them to the particular positions. The lives are in both virtual and physical world in several forms. To clarify, in virtual world, when gamers grab a star and put it on the tree, the flowers will blossomed. Another, when gamers drag the star to the stone in virtual world, the stone in physical world will be evoked as well.

Through this project, we would like to show that life is short, like the flash in the pan, the meteor shot across the sky. However, life is also infinite and powerful since it could be transformed into various forms and last forever.

In the project, leap motion was used to detect the hand positions and gestures. Moreover, we used Processing to code the virtual effects and Arduino to build the connection within the virtual and physical world.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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InBud

Muqing Niu, Xuhui Xu

Two strangers compose music together to create implicit understanding.

http://sabrinaaa.com/2015/11/18/final_in-progress/

Description

The main purpose of the project is to create a scene where two strangers can play music together, without knowing the face and sound and tender of each other, building up some implicit understanding of these two people.
What inspire us is that nowadays most of the social network software are based on the tags, and it can't give us a distinct knowledge of this person, cause the tags may tell a lie. However when two people do something together, especially when they have no judgement upon each other, they can get a fair understanding of the other one, that could be a new way of social network.
So in our project we are building such a scene, composed of two separated space, using two computers communicating each other, using two kinects to encourage people exploring the depth, using two projector to create a emerged illusion. Two people step into the separated space and touch the cloth, the fire and ripple visual effect coming out, with the fluid of the visual effect on the screen they can hear the harmony music coming out from the black. Then they start to play the music, slower and faster, moving around or just stick in here, follow or escape, they can do what they want to do, meanwhile what they do is seen by the other person. So in the whole process, they play together and finally get the understanding of each other.
In a word, InBud is an engaging experience where two strangers make collaborative music generation by dabbling water and flame on the wall, and get implicit understanding in the progress.

Classes

Applications, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Superhero Cape

Eve J Weinberg, Karalyn C Lathrop

An interactive superhero cape that helps a user save Earth from destructing from an incoming astroid.

http://itpblog.evejweinberg.com/2015/12/02/mission-asteroid-week-5-presentation/

Description

The goal of this project is to empower children to feel like a superhero and unleash the child-like imaginations of adults. A superhero cape will allow a user to interact and navigate through an interactive web-based game. The user will use the cape to fly through space in order to save the planet from destruction.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Paint your flower

Kritchaya Twitchsri

An interactive lighting paper flower wallpaper/

http://www.ppaperplane.com/2015/12/03/icm-final-presentation/

Description

An interactive flower backdrop (22 x28″ canvas). Using neopixels that tied with serial communication where the user could pick their favorite colors on an interface on a laptop and that color will lit up on the wall.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Computational Media

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Spitshield

Melissa Jinu Kang, Songee Hahn

Spitshield is an unique device that detects volume of saliva when people talk and projects facial deformation of listener based on amount of spit.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IJ8aIespzBt5EVFsdm6K9De-ZUI7DyqOoxLFzJz8gV4/edit?usp=sharing

Description

The idea for Spitshield is inspired from the unpleasant feeling when we have a conversation with someone who spits. While Spitshielded detects the volume of spits, it projects a deformed version of the listener's face on the screen, based on the amount of saliva. This will keep people away from getting sprayed and allow speakers to recognize they are spitting.

Classes

Conversation and Computation, Live Web