clayodor

Project Members

Ermal Dreshaj, Xavier Benavides(Listener), Judith Amores(Listener), Sang Leigh, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao

MIT Media Lab

Project Description:

clayodor (\klei-o-dor\) is a clay-like malleable material that changes smell based on user manipulation of its shape. This work explores the tangibility of shape changing materials to capture smell, an ephemeral and intangible sensory input. We present the design of a proof-of-concept prototype, and discussions on the challenges of navigating smell though form.

Final Report:

link to final writeup

Video: 

link to video

Special Thanks:

Project: Master Builders

Team Members:

Hye Soo Yang

Jili Huang

Ricardo Alvarez

David Lobser

Isabelle Alles

Gal Sasson

Omer Shapira

Project Description:

A shared VR/AR platform where people can co-design their environment using superpowers, while having fun…!!!!

What we’re doing for the presentation:

We plan to show our ongoing work in the use of VR and parametric design as a tool for co-designing urban/architectural spaces.

1. We’re using VR to let people “feel” proposed urban designs, while allowing them to vote on what they like or don’t as feedback input;
2. Also, we allow people to interact and change the pre made  designs by using superpowers ;
3. Allow multiple users to have multiple asynchronous co-design sessions.
4. Finally we place the proposed designs in Google Street View as a proxy of how it would look in the real world.

All of this will be done within a VR environment.

Important: We’re not making a professional’s tool, but more of a interaction/design platform for everyone.

Presence Fountain

Builders: Miles, Evan

We will present a fountain (as in small houseplant-size decoration) which acts as a proxy to facilitate non-invasive communication about presence and level of activity.