Jibber Jabber

A film about a fictional character created using machine learning that symbolizes a collective memory.

Runway
Machine Learning
Media Design
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Companion

A film about a friendship between a human and AI robot that help each other manage their uncertain circumstances.

Machine Vision
Conversational AI
Raspberry Pi
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Part-of-Us

An experiment with Unity3D’s VFX Graph and physics engine, and the Axis Neuron motion capture suit. Review code

Unity3D
Motion Capture
VFX
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Rube Goldberg Machine

A website triggered by a simple User input and continues through a chain of data requests and responses. Review code

HTML/CSS
REST APIs
JavaScript
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Nelson Notes

A pair of IoT devices that facilitate a sense of connection with distant friends through a game of Simon Says.

Physical Computing
JavaScript
Cloud Services
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Aural Clouds

A video and sound installation, created from site-specific recordings, of augmented soundscapes in familiar places around Los Angeles.

SuperCollider
Raspberry Pi
Sound Design

Dance Dance NFC

A public interactive experience that reimagines NFC technology as communal and delightful, instead of mundane and practical.

HTML/CSS
Interaction Design
Experience Design
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Aerium Dome

A re-designed 200,000 sq. ft. space aboard a 2027 Royal Caribbean cruise ship based on sky as the inspiration for human curiosity and exploration.

Unreal Engine
Spatial Experience Design
3D Modeling
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Blockchain Oracle

A film that speculates a blockchain-based public amenity where communities consult like the ancient Greeks consulted oracles.

Unreal Engine
Conversational AI
Interaction Design
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Snap Lens Gentrifier Database

A computer vision model for Snapchat Lens that empowers community members to identify objects of gentrification in their neighborhood.

Machine Learning
Augmented Reality
Critical Design
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OMNI

A speculative design film, shaped by research on embodied proximity, that proposes a remedy for social fragmentation in this digital age.

Physical computing
Interaction Design
Speculative Design
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The Black Box

A book that communicates the implications of AI development on human society and culture as a provocation to imagine a different future.

Communication Design
Typography
Artificial Intelligence

S.E.B.N.F.E

An augmented reality, immersive experience that instigates critical reflection of the speculative design discipline through the metaphor of a staircase.

Augmented Reality
Typography
Immersive Experience
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