Projects
Curiocity
When you start a new medicine, you don’t always know what to ask. curiocity is a service that brings relevant questions from online health communities to you, at a moment where you could use some support. When you go to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, the pharmacist gives you a tailored list of [...]
Thought Drop
“Thought Drop is an in-car communication service concept that enables people to drop off and pick up” location based messages and reminders. Subscribers can partake in the joy and functionality of location-based personalized messaging coupled with the simplicity of a context-specific interactive experience. Using in-car GPS services or a mobile phone application, drivers can leave, [...]
The Solid Fugue
Our collections of music are housed in a hard drive or online, no longer on a shelf or in our spaces. They have no body, no form. Without a physical form the digital collection can only be explored systematically. Rather than unique and personal organization that we do in our shelves, the digital music collection [...]
Aesthetics of Health Care Technology
This body of work is aesthetic research on the possibilities of health care technologies. It explores how the physicality and aesthetics of health care technology affect the emotional and psychological connection to intimate machines, and how that connection effects our ability to use them to assist us in self care. I have a relationship with my [...]
Body Story The App
iPhone app for tracking recurring medical symptoms [video]http://vimeo.com/43100605[/video] In our world, the importance of monitoring personal health is oftentimes overshadowed by the complexity of resources and tools involved in healthcare. Body Story streamlines the process of health monitoring through an interface that enables users to keep a record of their symptoms with simple inputs. The [...]
Data Dance
“Not the ghost in the machine, but the body in the medium is the central dilemma of modern communications…” – John Durham Peters [video]http://vimeo.com/51191559[/video] The World In a possible near future, where quantifying of the self is taken to its logical extreme, every person has their own “supermetric”. This is an informatic that encompasses every [...]
Kowtowing Lamp
The Kowtowing Lamp is an exploration into products that have personality. As an object, it functions as both light source and a data visualization device. We decided not to specify the information displayed, imagining instead that people could map data sets of their choosing to the lamp’s behavior via an API. As for personality, we [...]
Sitymeter
“The street is the river of the city, the people come to these places not to escape, but to partake in it.” William H. Whyte [video]http://vimeo.com/45786257[/video] The sitymeter draws attention to the success of the bridge as a great public space. It celebrates the wonderful synergy that happens between the structure of the city, the [...]
Piddle
Winner of HealthHackDay 2012 An iPhone app for urine test strip analysis. Piddle guides you through the proccess, takes, and tracks the test results. It explains the meaning of each result and shows how your values fall within normal ranges. The results are stored and can be shared with your doctor. Why urinalysis? Urinalysis is an important [...]
