Stack View
I'm currently developing this project as an
Artist-in-Residence at
EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Stack View takes
Google
Street View (where you can go down every urban street for a look, virtually)
but gives you the library book, stack view.
How:
Send camera-mounted
look trucks through the stacks of as many libraries as possible to capture the
browsing experience photographically.
Composite the images in a single
mega-panorama browsable on-line.
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EdLab & Stack View
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Openstacks.org
Open Stacks is an on-going outgrowth of Stack View.
Open Stacks is trying to bring the best attributes of physical
libraries
online, while addressing the book cataloging and housing issues they face. This
is
a project that I'm trying to grow, collaborating with two university library
digital labs to create the best thing we can.
A first step:
Take
the
recorded book information libraries already have and use it to create a visual
browser along side standard catalog results.
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Open Stacks
This is Google Map of the sketch, Explore!
Beat Browser
Beat Browser is a music player delivering immediate
audio feedback for a more fluid browsing experience.
Imagine every song in
your music library playing silently. Mousing over album covers "awakens" them like
surfing a radio dial.
The goal: to create the sense of continuously
flowing audio while maintaining machine performance.
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vSpace
vSpace is a software company I co-founded with Bill Gardner, Ph. D. vSpace is
unique voice over internet protocol (VoIP) teleconferencing software.
vSpace users hear other conference participants spatially localized around their
head.
Outside of marketing and strategy responsibilities, I designed vSpace's custom
software phone - the look, feel and illustrative graphic elements.
Get in
touch to try it out -
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video and listen →
Don headphones for the full experience
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Wink
Wink is an ambient timer. At regular intervals, or based on scheduled events, Wink flashes a color inversion of what you're currently seeing. It winks.
Wink brings your awareness to the passage of time without interrupting work flow.
Set Wink to wink every hour to better budget your time. Tie Wink to just your web browser, setting the wink to 15 minute intervals if you're prone to reverie.
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Coin-Op
This video looks at a common trajectory of an idea. In this case, it was imagining a world where everything is coin-operable. A world where payment must be made in the moment of transaction.
Though applicable across multiple scenarios, I decided to make breaks cost during the work day. I wanted to see if I could more tightly couple "cost" & consequence for myself.
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Tellphone
Tellphone is a cellphone and electro-cardiogram (ECG) mash-up.
Its hardware and software drives the cell phone motor to physically manifest your heartrate on the phone on the other end. Tellphones pair the human voice with vibrations to lend a backbeat to conversation.
Alternately, just by clutching your phone in your pocket, your heart rate may be transmitted to another Tellphone user in a voiceless, tangible "call."
Spatial Navigator
Spatial Navigater is an a eyes-free browsing device. Spatial Navigator places software applications in 3D space about the user. It's a way to use your spatial memory to drive a computer.
We use the Earth’s magnetic field and 3-axis accelerometers to register the device's heading in real-time.
As an example, we "exploded" a music library around the user's body in a segmented map. By pointing and using the on-board switch, users successfully navigated a multi-tiered music file structure based on Genre > Artist > Album > Tracks.
Websites
Outside of this site, I've built a couple of other websites lately.
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1) Speech + Mobility Group:
For my Research Group at the Media Lab, designed the logo as well as the entire site and its organization. The goal of this project was to bring the group's wealth of video documentation to the fore.
2) The Heirloom Tomato Sauce Co.:
I put this website together for a company my mother recently founded. Outside of the site, I'm responsible for the photography.
3) The Center for Eye Research and Education:
I built this website for a local non-profit. I was responsible visual design and architecture
