The WildLab lies at the intersection between citizen science and mobile education. The WildLab program won DML grant (Digital Media and Learning) in 2009 and has engaged many schools and organizations and more than 500 students in New York area.
Equipped with an iphone app, online community and inquiry based curriculum, students can go through an ID process of an ornithologist, collect birds data and contribute to science community.
The program has been a great success and here is the team behind it.
Skymap is a mobile application that runs on GPS-enabled mobile devices to display the current sky at the user's current location
It's a collaberation work with Jared Lamenzo and Mohit SantRam
Skymap will be on the new GPS enabled iPhone
Wildlab uses GPS data via mobile device to deliver real-time birding information.
It's a collaberation work with Jared Lamenzo and Mohit SantRam
A Skype plugin that promotes a talking avatar social network.
Users can select a voki character to start a video conference on skype. The lip shapes of the avatar also responses to human voice in real time.
Faceplate Gazing Tracking System
Faceplate is a patent-pending software that tracks faces and advertising impressions in indoor retail stores and out door spaces. It is currently in use in Port Autority, New York.
Evan Barba is the other main developer of this project..
Space Invaders 2006
Space
Invaders 2006 is my thesis project. It is a video game(space invaders)
which is projected against a building (NYU Tisch Hall). The interface
of the game is designed in a way which fits the shape of the
architecture. A player is controlling an aircraft "remotely" to shoot
down those invaders by his/her movement in a physical space. If a
player moves left or right, the aircraft moves left or right; if a
player jumps or raises hands, the aircraft fires.
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Rethinking the classroom: Music Monkey
Music Monkey is an interactive environment which is designed for
children with physical disability, that confines them to wheelchairs.
In this environment, children can play a musical educational video
game, which is projected against the blackboard, by moving their
wheelchairs in the classroom. The wheelchair works as a game joystick
and children can learn the basic skills of operating the control of
their wheelchairs through playing the games.
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CellWish
A text message based 3D public video installation. People can send
their good wish via SMS of cellphone and share the good karma with the
other people in the public space.
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MobileCowboys in Neitherland || Textually.org || ITP winter show 2005 in New York University
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Crayons, Interactive Sketchbook (No website yet)
'Crayons', a virtual space inspired by minimalist art, is a
three-screen installation about the sculptures of Sol Lewitt. 'Crayons'
can respond to a viewer's movement by creating streams of information
processed inside the virtual world.
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Club Robot
It is a music instrument controlled robot which can dance and spit in
response to the different lights shot on it. The lights is controlled
by a music instrument -- Turntable.
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Sony Wonder Tech Lab, New York, Nov 05
Virtual Instrument
The instrument is controlled remotely by the performer's motion of the body and the gesture.
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