Here is the complete list of student final projects for this course. They are in no particular order as they are very diverse explorations.. These are "mini-thesis" or "practice-thesis" projects. Some students made fully working prototypes, others made detailed design documents with dummy prototypes, and yet others fell between the two camps. All of them have have accompanying 10-page documents that presents their research, critical analysis, motivations, and design decisions. Follow the links for full project site..
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Mike Edward's Pleech
The Pringles Wind Turbine (a.k.a. Power Leech or Pleech) is an attempt to turn simple items found at the hardware store and elsewhere into a working low-voltage power supply. It is also the process for creating the turbine, designed so that other people may reproduce the product themselves.
http://a.parsons.edu/~medwards/?q=node/305
also see: http://www.instructables.com/id/ERTAINQF18DW99A/
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Chia Ying's WhataWaste
WhataWaste is a system built specifically for mobile phones to help people get information about street discarded items based on their demands.In order to encourage user participation, the point system and feedback system are implemented to WhataWaste to increase contribution and trustworthy behavior.
http://a.parsons.edu/~clin/spring2007/wordpress/
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Tracy Gromek's AWARE
AWARE is an alert device for patients and caregives who are concerned with excessive bleeding. If profuse bleeding occurs AWARE emits a high pitched sound that is loud enough to wake a sleeping individual and be heard from distance. It was designed to bring piece of mind to the people who are afraid to sleep or leave the bedside of a loved one due to a medical condition that causes random bleeding.
http://trayjayg.typepad.com/ms2_interface/2007/05/final_paper.html
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Albert Dang's Telx
Telx is a platform for remote communication and interaction. My final paper describes my design questions, domains, precedents, process, and evaluation for the project. The name is derived from the word “telex”, which the Second College Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary defines as:
A communication system consisting of typewriters connected to a telphonic network to send and receive signals.
The idea is that this platform would expand that method of communication to new technologies and levels of interaction.
http://a.parsons.edu/~adang/blogs/ms2/?p=55
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Cicek Neftci's eMCy
eMCy is a tool to hear a familiar voice and creates a database of sounds from the loved ones.
http://cicek-mj2.blogspot.com/
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Inti Einhorn's Distance Factor
Distance Factor is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the beauty which I have found can exist in something as crude and unlikely as a fight.
http://intieinhorn.typepad.com/my_weblog/
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Chloe Varelidi's Medusa
Medusa v.0: urban eco toys that glow around the city depending on the amount of water that is spend in a neighborhood on a daily basis.
http://chloevarelidi.blogspot.com/
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Gaelen Green's M Path
M-path is a virtual mapping tool that enables you to experience the city through resonating traces of memory that you and others have left behind.
http://gfgonline.wordpress.com/
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Ivona Zdravevska's Interactive Learning Tool
The Interactive Learning Tool is a tool for children. This tool connects my interests in child development and dynamic media. My inspiration is my 2 year old nice.
http://zivona.wordpress.com/
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Jay Rothman's Hybrid Instruments and Performance
The aim of this project is to design a quartet of hybridized organic instruments
http://jayqclone.typepad.com/jayqclone/
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Hsinping Dai's Dr. Recipe
“Dr. Recipe” is a health recipe website that is used to search health recipes according to user’s body condition.
http://a.parsons.edu/~hdai/?p=136
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Carolina Torres's Collective Experience Mood Tool
Is a playful tool aimed to unchain social relationships that can be transformed into emotional readings from a group. Exploring the behavior of users inside the network and identifying how personality, attitudes, motivations and behavior of individuals or groups change in the context of social interaction.
http://caritorres.typepad.com/carolina_torres/2007/05/he_collective_m.html
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