| Name |
Video |
Description |
Author |
| Graduate
students and research assistants projects |
|
DartMail |
 |
A dart gun is used to send
other people email. An RFID tag links the dart to electronic information. |
Tony Tang & Eric Pattision |
|
MSN Slider |
|
A simple slider lets you quickly set
your on-line status from online, to busy, away, offline, and so on. |
Michael Rounding |
|
Privacy Preserving Media Space |
|
An experiment in how physical
devices can mitigate privacy controls in always on video. |
Michael Boyle |
|
Pumpkin Phidget |
|
Pumpkin decoration gets out
of hand when Chester appears on the scene. October 2001. |
Chester Fitchett
Saul Greenberg |
|
Undergraduate projects, Winter 2001 |
| Flower in Bloom |
|
A flower blooms under program control |
Susannah McPhail |
|
Light Wheel |
|
An ambient display where one
can control patterns of lights on a circular wheel. |
Michael Durrant |
|
Missed Calls |
|
A cell phone cradle and gauge tells a
person how many phone calls were missed. |
Raul Nemes |
|
Nerf Email |
|
A tongue-in-cheek email notifier that shoots nerf disks
at you when email arrives. |
Carman Neustaedter |
| Phidget Eyes |
|
Eyes blink and light up. |
Debbie Mazurak |
|
Power Dimmer and Lamp |
|
A lamp's light level changes and its
lampshade rotates. |
Brant LeClercq |
|
Waterfall Harp |
|
A water harp plays musical chords as
people 'strum' the water |
Olive Au |
|
Undergraduate projects, Winter 2002 |
| Cuckoo Clock |
|
A person sets this
computer clock to make the cuckoo appear. |
Jacelyn Campbell |
|
Disharmony |
|
An abstract conglomeration of loosely
related themes designed to provoke thought. |
Mike Polowick |
| Ele-Phidget |
|
An elephant faces you when you
receive an audio message. Push its stomach to play the message. Squeeze its head
to send a message. |
Shivaughan Warwaruk |
|
Magnetic
Dessert |
|
Silvery rocks moving around a desert
reflects the motion in one's surroundings. |
Kari Basaraba |
|
Marble Mail |
|
Ambient display that moves marbles between 3 bowls as email arrives and is read. |
Shannon Goodman |
| Mathletics |
|
Children race skiers down a
mountain by correctly answer multiplication questions. |
Russell Kruger |
|
Messenger
Frame |
|
A contact's photo reflects their on-line
activity. Send a message by touching the photo. |
Mike Hornby-Smith |
|
Monster
Phidget |
|
Monster greets people as they walk by. It
says jokes if they linger or touch him. |
Edward Tse |
| Mood Table |
|
A table reacts with different
light patterns and poetic sounds as people press its surface. |
Eric Pattison |
|
Parking
Assistant |
|
A traffic light helps someone park their
car in a garage. |
Kashama Willms |
|
Picture
Frame |
|
Touching a picture makes lights to
blink on its partner's picture. |
Kathryn Elliot |
|
Planetarium |
none |
Different constellations project onto a
ceiling as one presses silver stars controls |
Kathryn Elliot |
|
Rusty
Barnacle - the show |
|
A computerized puppet show telling the pirate
tale of adventure in the Caribbean. |
Kevin Foster |
|
Rusty
Barnacle - the making |
|
This video shows how the
above puppet show was made |
Kevin Foster |
| Simon the
SunFlower |
|
Children repeat a pattern played
by the flower by squeezing the leaves in the correct order. |
Nancy Lopez |
|
Time Tracker |
|
A doll house where the figurines move
according to the time of a user-set location. |
Erin Wallace |
|
Waterfall Aquarium |
|
An aquarium contains three
movable sea creatures and a colored waterfall. |
Shannon Pokojoy |
|
Undergraduate projects, Fall 2002 |
|
Appointment Assistant |
|
An appointment reminder
display that interacts with the users Outlook calendar. |
Zaid Alibhai |
|
Black Magic Puppetry |
|
A doll that responds to
gestures sent through MSN Instant Messenger |
Rosemary
Sanchez |
|
Bob the Repositional Camera |
|
A web camera moves in
both the X and Y axis, and can auto-track a person's face |
Alan
Flanders |
|
Cricket Clock |
|
An ambient display that
tracks how a nearby telephone is used |
Chris
Bradley |
|
Desolate Igloo |
|
A strange igloo with northern lights
and that grants a desire for warmth. |
Arif Fazel |
|
Foos Wars |
|
A foosball table where one
person plays on the physical table, and another plays via the web |
Mike
Larke and Mike Clark |
|
Funky Mirror |
|
A mirror distorted under computer control |
Zorin
Musani |
|
Interactive Storybook |
|
An interactive version of
Harry Potter's Chamber of Secrets that links paper and web. |
Christina Escabillas |
|
Laser Pong |
|
A two-player game where
competitors battle it out on their ceiling |
Jason
Chan |
|
MC Status |
|
An MSN Messenger contact
status notification device using Simsons figurines. |
Christian Leith |
|
MiniBar with recipies |
|
A bar designed for guests to
make exotic drinks |
Barbara Lenart |
|
MusicBox |
|
A physically interactive
music manager that also lets you control how songs are played |
Rob
Diaz-Marino |
|
StarWars Coffee Room Monitor |
|
A Star Wars display that lets
you see who is drinking coffee |
Chris Willott |
|
Teddy Phidget |
|
A robotic Teddy Bear that
responds to petting and can move his legs. |
Anand
Agarawala |
