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Racing Thoughts

Emily Zhao

If your positive and negative thoughts had to race, which one would win?

https://emilyzhaoblog.wordpress.com/category/intro-to-physical-computing/

Description

Racing Thoughts is an interactive experience that aims to bring awareness to one’s relationship with themself and their thoughts. The project prompts users to write one positive sentence and one negative sentence about themselves. At the end, their response times for each thought will be printed on a receipt, as well as their actual responses, for them to take.

Did it take longer to say a positive or negative thought? Are the two sentences equal in severity? Was the experience taken seriously? These are all questions I want the user to reflect on.

While it might be tempting to compare one's response times with other's, I want to stress that this experience is meant to spark SELF-reflection. It is also important to remind people to accept all their thoughts, both positive and negative, for we are not our thoughts.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media: Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Authentic or Not

Yiting Liu

A physical interactive platform that allows you to learn traditional Chinese/ Indian cuisine through visual representation.

https://yitingliu97.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/fusion-or-not-update-pcomp-week11/

Description

The physical interactive platform includes a big mixing bowl in the center with four ingredients bowls around. The platform will be projected with the p5 sketched on top of it. 

Users are prompted to push the “START” button to initiate the act of mixing ingredients. They only have 30 seconds to make a traditional Indian or Chinese cuisine. They have to reach inside the bowl to trigger the motion sensor which will be displayed on the projected visual representation. 




The ingredient chosen will be put into a bowl and users are prompted to rotate the encoder to select different layers of ingredients. When the time is up or three layers are selected, the game is over. The screen will compare the chosen ingredients with the right ingredients for the cuisine and users are promoted to scan the QR code to download the traditional cuisine to learn. 

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media: Media, Introduction to Physical Computing

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Shadow Wall

Ashwita Palekar, Cy Kim

A two-way wall that detects the intersection of two people's shadows to trigger music.

https://cykimblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/pcomp_final-in-progress/

Description

Using shadows as a medium for creating music, we encourage two people to stand on either side of a projection screen and move together to create different sonic outputs. The location and the size of the intersection of shadows will vary the tonal qualities of the music.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media: Media, Introduction to Physical Computing