Tangible Interfaces » Students https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834 MAS.834 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:33:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Thariq Shihipar https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/10/14/thariq-shihipar/ https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/10/14/thariq-shihipar/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:37:31 +0000 https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/?p=3674 Info:

thariq [at] mit.edu

MIT Media Lab, Viral Communications

Expertise

★★☆☆ Fabrication & Craft
★★★☆ Design
★★★☆ Electronics
★★★★ Programming
★☆☆☆ Biology
★☆☆☆ Chemistry

 

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Wellesley College, senior, CS&Math ; Media lab Responsive Environment UROP

Expertise

★★☆☆  Fabrication & Craft
★★☆☆  Design
★☆☆☆   Electronics
★★★☆  Programming
★☆☆☆  Biology
★☆☆☆  Chemistry
★★★☆  Visualization

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
I’ve designed an interactive exhibition for kids, on the sustainable construction techniques built by insect architects.

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
Vaccuformed plastic packaging for electronics due to single function of protecting contents.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Develop and cultivate ideas for thesis work; make new friends; learn about tangible media practices

How can you contribute to the class?
I bring a considerable experience in various 3d modeling, visualization and fabrication. I also love brainstorming and developing ideas so I’d love to deep dive into discussions on overlapping interests if dynamics permit.

 

]]> https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/30/yi-tong/feed/ 0 Clark Della Silva https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/30/clark-della-silva/ https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/30/clark-della-silva/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:04:07 +0000 https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/?p=3388 Info
clarkds@media.mit.edu
MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media Group

Expertise
★★☆  Fabrication & Craft
☆☆☆  Design
★★★ Electronics
★★★  Programming
☆☆☆Photography & Video ProductionsWhat’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
A magical box for kids which brings toys to life. When a small toy is put inside the box, the child-user will see it come to life through an AR interface. The toy will interact with the box, with the kid and also with the world.What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
Keyboards in other languages formatsWhat do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Deeply understand the “Radical Atoms” vision. Meet people with same interests, and build something I would be proud to show/write a paper about it or show it in an installation art.How can you contribute to the class?I love brainstorming with different types of people to create new and radical ideas and build/fake them. I have programming skills and UX, I am also into photography and filmmaking. I love to mix technology and design/arts rather than choose one or the other, trying to mix the real and virtual world.

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Info
MIT Media Lab, Fluid Interfaces Group
Expertise★★☆  Fabrication & Craft
★★☆  Design
★★☆  Electronics
★★★  Programming
★★★  Photography & Video Productions

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
A magical box for kids which brings toys to life. When a small toy is put inside the box, the child-user will see it come to life through an AR interface. The toy will interact with the box, with the kid and also with the world.

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
Keyboards in other languages formats

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Deeply understand the “Radical Atoms” vision. Meet people with same interests, and build something I would be proud to show/write a paper about it or show it in an installation art.

How can you contribute to the class?

I love brainstorming with different types of people to create new and radical ideas and build/fake them. I have programming skills and UX, I am also into photography and filmmaking. I love to mix technology and design/arts rather than choose one or the other, trying to mix the real and virtual world.

]]> https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/25/judithamores/feed/ 0 Chikara Inamura https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/chikara-inamura/ https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/chikara-inamura/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:58:55 +0000 https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/?p=3336 Info

inamura@mit.edu
www.chikara-inamura.com
www.zha-code-education.org
MIT Media Lab / Mediated Matter Group

Expertise

★★★  Fabrication & Craft
★★★  Design
★★★  Electronics
★★★  Programming
★☆☆  Biology
★☆☆  Chemistry

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?

Co-founded ZHA-CODE-EDU, an educational worldwide NPO for designers, coders, and makers of all age to get together and have fun building:

www.zha-code-education.org

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?

A soldering iron tip that is bigger than the microchip.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?

Foundation theory and practice to build playful objects at the intersection between physical and digital world.

How can you contribute to the class?

I’m an architect by trade, maker at heart, and programmer in brain. I have 10 years of experience in design, engineering, and building complex buildings across the world. Happy to share my experience in virtually all kinds of 3D software (Rhinoceros, Maya, CATIA) and scripting (GH, Mel, CATVBA).

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alishap@media.mit.edu
Research Assistant  |  Lifelong Kindergarten at the MIT Media Lab
Expertise
 
☆☆★★★  Fabrication & Craft
☆☆★★★  Design
☆☆☆★★  Electronics
☆☆☆☆★  Programming
☆☆☆★★  Biology
☆☆☆☆★  Chemistry
 
What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
An interactive ‘Deviced’ theaterical performance that I co-designed with three other artists and thirty middle school students in India. The performance design was evolved using shadow puppets, interactive textiles with LED lights, and a script born out of improvisation and introspection.
This remains my favorite project as I engaged deeply in a participatory design process that involved constant empathetic interactions.
Here is a news article:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article2792912.ece
Here is the link to the tech art series of workshops I led for the project:
https://vimeo.com/55505704
 
What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
Belan’ Indian rolling pin that we use to make Chapatis (Indian Bread). I don’t really understand how the relationship between ‘Belan’ and ‘Chakla'(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakla) works. The technique involves applying pressure with your hands in the same place in order to make circular bread. I haven’t been able to develop any intuition about doing it the right way.
 
What do you personally hope to get out of this class? 
I am a first-year graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, and work as a Research Assistant with Professor Mitchel Resnick. Spending a significant amount of my lifetime pursuing art, design and learning, I have mostly been encouraged to perceive things by engaging all the senses and asking carefully crafted questions. I am deeply inspired from the Tangible Media Group’s values and eager to dive further into knowing about creating artistic ways of engagement through aesthetic tangible interactions.
I am passionate about creating environments that allow children to foster their creative intuition and spark curiosities through storytelling and making. My work is highly influenced by the ideas of constructionism, slow design, experience design, emotional design and Intimate science.Being part of this course will give me rich opportunities to engage in hands-on experience in designing, building and making interactive experiences. I wish to extend opportunities for people to connect meaningfully with the world around themselves and creatively express themselves in novel ways.
]]> https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/alisha/feed/ 0 Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/ricardo-jnani-gonzalez/ https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/ricardo-jnani-gonzalez/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:01:39 +0000 https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/?p=3328 Info
 
jnani@mit.edu
ricardo-jnani.com
SMArchS  Architectural Design Candidate  |  MIT Architecture 
Bachelor of Architecture |  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
 
Expertise
 
★★★★  Design
★★★★  Photography/Film
★★★★  Digital Modeling & Visualization
☆★★★  Fabrication & Craft
☆☆★★  Electronics
☆☆★★  Programming
 
What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
In my third year of at Cal Poly, I built a concrete scaled model of a proposal for a Morphology Lab at Cal Tech. The foundation alone weighed 165 lbs. What I found to be special about making this model was how the many hours of designing the foundation, iterating the model, constructing the mold, and mapping out the procedure, all culminated with a single careful & methodical concrete pour lasting only a minute.
 
What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
My computer frustrates me everyday. However, it is also one of the objects I love the most. It feels like an object that is just two steps away from reading my mind & knowing exactly what I want at all times. This was not the case when I first began using a computer – it was such a distant & static thing that seemed to only accepted commands. Now, however, it is frustratingly close to being a complete back & forth interaction thing – to feeling like an external limb that I don’t quite have complete control of.
 
What do you personally hope to get out of this class? How can you contribute to the class?
Through an Independent Study I experimented with an art installation that combined physical interaction with digital projection. One participant was asked to interact with an evolving, settling concrete canvas while responding to the superimposed projection of another user navigating the experiment’s website. This experiment explored mutually creating while digitally, physically, and instinctually expressing an idea with one another. Through experiments in this class I hope to dig much deeper into questioning how we express and perceive information.
]]> https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/ricardo-jnani-gonzalez/feed/ 0 Alice Huang https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/alice-huang-2/ https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/alice-huang-2/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:57:21 +0000 https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/?p=3100 Alice_Profile

Info

ahuang27@mit.edu

Mechanical Engineering + Product Design and Development

Undergrad 2015

http://behance.net/alicelihuang

 

Expertise

★★★☆   Fabrication & Craft
★★★☆   Design
★★☆☆   Electronics
★☆☆☆    Programming
★☆☆☆   Biology
★☆☆☆   Chemistry

What’s the favorite thing you’ve made?

The Printer Discourse – a public art project that collected responses to personal prompts and displayed them using thermal printers mounted on the second floor of the State Center. Each thermal printer had a roll of receipt paper that collected answers from one prompt and grew longer as more people responded to the questions.

 

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?

The color printer in the student center. It’s inexplicably slow for a super mundane task and it’s always filled with paper jams! Because it’s the only free color printer on campus, there’s always a line or it’s in use.

 

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?

I hope to understand products from a different viewpoint. I love making things work and want to make sure that it interacts with users with intention.

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Info

mdsingh@gsd,harvard.edu

http://mdsingh.wix.com/malikasinghportfolio

Harvard Graduate School of Design- Masters in Design Studies-Technology and Material Studies

Research Assistant for ALIVE & WYSS Institute.

Expertise

★★★★  Fabrication & Craft
★★★★  Design
★★     Electronics
★★     Programming
–           Biology
–           Chemistry

 

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
I love building things! I have made many models for school, explored materials for research, designed interactive installations and most of all make personalized gifts for friends. The driving force that pushed me to pursue masters in United states was its state of the art Fabrication Lab which is not at my disposal back home.

This being said, my absolute favorite projects include Opti-Con and The Gaze

Opti-Con: Explored optical Fibers in Concrete to make everyday mundane walls interesting and Fun! It created an interesting interaction between the interior and exterior spaces and at the same time was placed in the wall in a way to collect sunlight and throw it into internal dark spaces. This project exploited materials to create an effect which would otherwise be only possible using high-tech electronics.

The Gaze : This is a Screen unlike the one mentioned above explored modern materials and technologies. Using smart film, Arduino, processing and projections a pavilion was designed for the city of Guangzhou, China. This Pavilion allowed people to experience the city from one of the main vantages through various filters. Working with Smart film opening my mind to so many other applications and possibilities, of how not only design but also experiences of people can be augmented.

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
One of the frustrating object in my life are heels and I love heels but since they get very painful I cannot wear them for more than 2-3 hours and after these hours I begin to love flat footwear. Hope both of these were designed to be one and were just a click of a button away!

Also Wires!

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Having basic know-how of a few interactive devices and experiencing some of the projects done under Tangible Group I am certain that there is a lot of similar interests and a huge learning opportunity for me. I hope to not only gain the skill sets to create these type of projects myself, but I am also very passionate to understand the logic and creative thinking behind them.

How can you contribute to the class?
Since design and creativity is a two way exchange there are a few projects, ideas and skill sets that I would like to share with the group as well. Coming from a design background there is fresh and different outlook that I can bring to class, which would not only foster many discussions but would also result in a healthy exchange of ideas.I bring a considerable experience in mustard-making and can teach others in my group about the fascinating and nuanced intersection of human-computer interaction and food!!

]]> https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/malika-singh/feed/ 0 Viirj Kan https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/viirj-kan/ https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/2014/09/23/viirj-kan/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:46:41 +0000 https://courses.media.mit.edu/2014fall/mas834/?p=3295 InfoViirj@mit.edu
www.viirj.com
MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media Group / MS1Expertise★★★★  Fabrication & Craft
★★★★  Design
★★☆☆   Electronics
★★☆☆  Programming
★☆☆☆  Biology
★☆☆☆  Chemistry
★★★☆  VisualizationWhat’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
I’ve designed an interactive exhibition for kids, on the sustainable construction techniques built by insect architects.What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
Vaccuformed plastic packaging for electronics due to single function of protecting contents.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Develop and cultivate ideas for thesis work; make new friends; learn about tangible media practices

How can you contribute to the class?
I bring a considerable experience in various 3d modeling, visualization and fabrication. I also love brainstorming and developing ideas so I’d love to deep dive into discussions on overlapping interests if dynamics permit.

 

 
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