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Take the Money and Run!

Aidan Nelson, Simon Jensen

Experience the world through a personalized bot which visits the far corners of the Earth and sends you postcards back!

https://take-the-money-and-run.herokuapp.com

Description

While modern life is full of job, family, academic and interpersonal responsibilities, “Take the Money and Run” allows anyone to live our their dreams of dropping our of this rat-race and travelling the world in a safe and much less expensive way. Using the magic of open source mapping software and APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to pull photos and data on the countries and people your bot will visit, this game presents the player with short humorous postcards from around the world. Inspired in equal parts by Oregon Trail, Tamagotchi, and the oppressive noise of New York, this game attempts to do very little in a fun way. This web application uses P5.js (javascript), Mappa, Node.js, and a database service.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

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Interactive Whack-a-Mole

Kellee Massey

Whacking moles with a mallet for fun, points, and competitive bragging rights.

https://kelsin33.github.io/WhackAMole2017/

Description

A recent take on a childhood favorite, Interactive Whack-a-Mole lets you re-live childhood memories at the arcade. Using a projector, the web application is projected onto a table, where users can use a physical mallet to hit random moles as they appear for points, fun, and competitive bragging rights.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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A Collage of Rivers and Mountains

Eva Yipeng Chen

Create your own version of the most famous Chinese painting.

https://wp.nyu.edu/evachen/2017/11/28/icm-final-v1-0/

Description

Blue-green landscape painting is my favorite traditional Chinese painting style. Recently, the Palace Museum in Beijing, China, is exhibiting the most famous blue-green paintings includes the Panorama of Mountains and Rivers. This 1000-year old legendary painting is extraordinarily delicate and fragile, so it can only be exhibited once every ten years. I studied the elements in the traditional blue-green paintings, pulled all the elements out piece by piece, Layered them up in the order you like, then you now have your own version of the Panorama of Mountains and Rivers.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

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Alive

Simon Jensen, Yi Sandy Hsieh

Visualize and appreciate the automated functions of your body that keep you alive, and understand that you are in full control.

http://www.sandyhsieh.com/blog/2017/12/13/alive-final/

Description

Alive is a wearable device that can be integrated in clothing to measure respiration. We will demonstrate its functionality and accuracy with a p5 sketch that allows users to interact, visualize, and appreciate the automated functions of the body that keep them alive while simultaneously understanding that they are in full control by interacting with a game interface.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Similarity Jukebox

Marco Wylie

A musical installation that demonstrates how derivative songs can be.

http://www.chattinoutloud.com/2017/12/05/similarity-jukebox/

Description

Using a simple, intuitive interface, this installation will demonstrate how similar some songs are in sets of two. The user can move back and forth between each clips of songs to hear exactly the moment where both songs sound alike. When the fader is in the middle, the user can hear each song overlapping, with a visual of the album covers overlapping as well to emphasize what is being heard.

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing, Introduction to Computational Media

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The Data Viz of NYC Traffic

James Huang, Alan Peng

Our data visualization project shows real-time traffic both on roads and in subway to help people understand the NYC traffic condition at a glance.

https://

Description

Why is the NYC traffic so bad, and why is the NYC subway schedule so unreliable? The MTA is working hard and has proposed a few ways to fix these issues, but their solutions would not have impacts right away. What we can help now is to design a tool that is accurate and easy-to-use, so when train delay is inevitable, people can still plan ahead.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

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The ❤️ Machine

Mohammad Rizqi Hafiyyandi

Stages of falling in love : understanding, worshipping, and owning Taylor Swift.

https://hafiyyandi.com/taylorswift-deepdive

Description

Taylor Swift is a force of nature in the entertainment industry. Her songs constantly hit number 1 on the charts, she leaves a trail of famous-ex boyfriends and high-profile PR stunts, and the fans and non-fans just cannot get enough of her.

Yet, she is notoriously famous for ruling her business, image, and music with an iron fist. No critics unaddressed, no ex-boyfriends undisclosed, no music video and #girlsquad member is imperfect. Her life is a constant labor for her work.

What exactly is the relationship between Taylor Swift and her fans? Why do people fall in ❤️ & 😍 with her? Who is more in control, the worshipper, or the worshipped?

This piece imagines stages of falling in ❤️ with Taylor Swift through visualizations of her body of work (musical and cultural) and a DIY tamagotchi by which you can literally own, keep, and play with a piece of Taylor Swift.

Classes

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

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The Lingo Gizmo

Elizabeth Ferguson

Invent original words with the Lingo Gizmo, a fabricated mouth, teeth and tongue. Contribute to a growing new language. Listen back to new words created by the people around you.

http://www.itpblogelizabethferguson.com/2017/11/06/class-10-intro-to-phys-comp-final-proposal-meaning-maker-by-the-mouthful-or-tbd-new-name/

Description

This project lets people:

-Build culture by creating new words that a loose group might use together.

-Have fun making strange words by using one’s hands.

-Be challenged to think of a meaning, feeling or situation that doesn’t have a word yet.

-Enjoy seeing what other words people have invented, and listen to those people pronounce them.

-Learn a little about other people based on the definitions they created, by looking through a little window into what’s on that person’s mind.

-Possibly start using newly invented words in daily life!?

-Less likely, but some people might stop to think about how the mouth forms words, which is what inspires the physical interaction model of the project (by which I mean whether words are made primarily with the tongue, teeth or mouth without the tongue or teeth. People will probably not figure this out and that’s OK.

-If someone is going deep, they might consider whether their native or second or third language allows for a full expression of how they’re feeling on the inside, and give people some agency to think of language (and therefore their world-view?) as not fixed and instead something they can change.

-If people are especially theoretical or grounded in linguistics… they might think about how the actual physical feeling of words in one’s mouth may intentionally map onto the intended meaning of words.

Classes

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

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The future forest experience

Lu Wang, Xiao Ma, Yu-Hao Ko

Discovering your own future forest experience.

https://shawnmasite.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/the-future-forestpending-title/

Description

We are creating a future forest experience for audience.

During the interaction, the audience will explore how to change the sketches as well as the music.

At the beginning of the interaction, we are going to place the sand in a beautiful landscape look inspired by the Japanese rock garden.Then the audiences will start playing with the sand and 'ruin' the scene and 'create' their own scene by interacting with the sand. The Kinect will track the audiences' motion and performing them in the sketches.

The sketches are simulating the nature but more in a digital way by drawing all the elements in coding and in a future style.

The musics are all in electronic style but fit the sketches perfectly. And the audiences will put the earphone on for the best experience.

We have almost finished the whole project so we just need to make it more perfect.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media

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Wish Candles

Hye Ryeong Shin, Yeonhee Lee

A magical flame that grants your wishes!

http://www.yeonheelee.com/category/01/wintershow2017/

Description

Blowing out birthday candles. Wishing upon a star. These actions represent two of the most traditional wish-making methods. Inspired by common conditioning towards wishing in these scenarios, and built upon Yeonhee Lee’s previous LED birthday cake midterm project, Wish Upon a Star is an interactive ICM/PComp final project by Yeonhee Lee and Hye Ryeong Shin.

Our project consists of a dark booth containing a webcam and monitor screen, with an electric match and LED candles presented in front of them. In its dormant state, the LED candles will be off and the screen will say “Strike the Match & Light the Closest Candle.” The user can turn on the LEDs with our handmade electric match, changing the screen into a dazzling night sky with instructions to “Make a wish and blow out the candles.” The user can then blow out the LED candles, which will trigger the stars on the screen to fall like a meteor shower. After the stars fall, the screen will reveal a surprise snapshot of the user during the moment he or she was making a wish, with two randomly generated elements on the photo: a frame design and a memorable quote related to wish-making. The screen will then present the user with an option to download the photo. The user can choose yes or no by nodding or shaking their heads, which will be detected by our hidden webcam. If the user shakes their head, the screen returns to its dormant state. If they nod, the screen will present a Twitter link and a QR code where the user can download the photo.

Our main theme and aim of this project was to create a fun, interactive, and memorable experience associated with wish-making through safe, flameless LED candles and animated shooting stars.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing