https://www.emilysaltz.space/
Emily Saltz is a UX researcher and works with artificial intelligence and media. In her TedTalk, she discussed on creating a more positive environment with the google search engine in which the autocorrection will be filled with positive seres instead of sad and depression ones.
code: https://editor.p5js.org/CaydenHorne/sketches/vCQSoJChp
presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/132apSh_ZsqQvZmVz6bFqSHdkqHZa2XckYao6_7EB7pI/edit#slide=id.g6c52a2e8d8_0_177
*i am unsure if it will all work due to the mix of my code and my reference
Sign Language Using Teachable Machine
Schools and jobs encourage their students or workers to learn a new language to be able to communicate with a larger amount of people. However, I feel that it is a better use of people’s time to learn sign language because it would be more accessible to all people. This source discusses the idea of using deep learning and coding language to educate others on sign language. This site primarily uses python to teach and use hundreds of images. The concept of using code to teach a language reminded me of the app Duolingo. I believe that Duolingo should work with a teachable machine to teach American Sign Language as well as other sign languages. These ideas along with the concept of a game inspired me to use a teachable machine to try and make a sort of prototype of teaching sign language. I think this class provides an opportunity to be inspired and creative which I have enjoyed, but I also like the idea of taking that creativity and combining it with something to make it purposeful. I also believe that the teachable machine has a lot of potential and will be very present in future technology.
https://www.startasl.com/sign-language-game/
https://www.funbrain.com/games/sign-the-alphabet
https://debuggercafe.com/american-sign-language-detection-using-deep-learning/
For my project, I was inspired by the fact I was blow drying my hair when I was coming up ideas for my project. So, for my project I used the training model that recognized images. There are 5 classes with my project. The first class recognizes when a hairbrush shown, and displays a side by side images that shows which hairbrush should be used with what type of hair. The second class recognizes when my blow dryer is shown and gives steps by steps of how to blow dry your hair. The third classes recognize when my hairtie is shown and shows a step by step hair style tutorial that uses one hair tie. The fourth class recognizes when my headband is shown, and similar to when my hair tie is shown, it shows three different way to style your hair with a headband. The last class, class five, is simply when I do not have a hair accessory with me. This way, the training machine doses not try to find an accessory: 
It is very interesting to me how not only race affects facial recognition, but also cultural norms and actions. This article discusses the different testings and research that had to be done for facial recognition, and some situations surprised me such as this excerpt: “If we maintain an expression for too long because our environment requires it, we can start to have emotional trauma. This is a documented problem in the service industry in Japan and Korea where employees are expected to constantly maintain smiles, creating a disorder called smile mask syndrome.” I grew up in Korea and this sentence made me think about how different facial expressions are between Korea and America. It is interesting how there are so many different changes, whether gradual, or sudden we all have and how it affects our technology.
Furthermore, this article showed how racism ideals in facial recognition technology has affected communities in different aspects. The last paragraph is especially powerful: “…The second is that the liberation of Black folks and all oppressed peoples will never be achieved by inclusion in systems controlled by a capitalist elite which benefits from the perpetuation of racism and related oppressions. It can only be achieved by the destruction of those systems, and the construction of new technologies designed, developed, and deployed by our own communities for our own benefit. The struggle for liberation is not a struggle for diversity and inclusion — it is a struggle for decolonization, reparations, and self-determination.” It is very important to have representation in designs of new technologies because of how it can affect different people groups in different ways; especially if the technology was designed by one people group, and basically for one people group only. We want the world to be the most equality it can be, and sometimes it means tearing down a wall to build a new one, not just adding on to it. I never realized how racist facial recognition was and still is today, but I understand know how very important it is that this injustice be reformed.
For my clock project, I wanted to represented time by using a flower scene. The flower and stem grows per second and restarts at the bottom when the minute starts again. As the minute progress, the flower moves to the right. I wanted the amount of minutes to be reflected with how many flowers there are, but unfortunately, I was not able to figure it out, but I do hope I will. Additionally, hours are represented with the sun and moon. Between the hours of 7 am to 7 pm, the sun is out and the sky is a yellow blue. At night, the moon is out and the sky is a dark blue and black. The sun and moon both move to the right as the hours progress as well.
A Silence Place was created by Jonathan Harris as a place to find refuge and peace. I appreciate how the artist considered how to best give his audience the feelings he had when he first experienced the canyons and the ancient works found there. He was very intentional about not taking away from any beauty in the silence from the viewers of his work. Each drawing appears for 227 seconds and appears again in 227 minutes. His hopes were for people to be able to reflect on themselves and find a place to rest their mind and have quiet time with oneself, which was accomplished in his work. The drawings are very soothing, calm, but yet full of immaculate beauty and detail.
A Silent Place, by Jonathan Harris, 2018
https://editor.p5js.org/CaydenHorne/sketches/ScfkuQEz3
This assignment allowed me to explore loops, variables, and functions. I feel that I have learned a good variety of techniques in p5 with this project. I created 9 iterations of moon phases, along with a sun, as well as a random position and weight generator for the stars. The background for all but the sun iteration is randomly generated as well. These random variables give the iterations each unpredictability and difference between each other. The moon phase and sun iteration has their own set of uniqueness and unpredictability. The sun stands out from the rest by being placed in the center of planets, in which the color of the planets are randomly generated. The moon is placed on the top right corner of the sun iteration to still include the moon theme, just from a different perspective. This iteration is remarkably different from the rest which then creates its own unpredictability. The moon phase may only have its background change color, but because it has a unique background of color, it gives this iteration its own identity as well. The sun and full moon boTh represent fullness and light and I wanted to emphasize its importance in different ways.
I managed and controlled the functions by assigning variables in the setup and creating functions with identifiable names. I used a loop statement to allow each mouse-click to generate a new screen.
Caroline’s lost fishing pole
When Caroline was a kid, her family went fishing. Before she even put the string to her fishing pole’s lopes, she dropped it in the water.
It was a black kids pole with a silver reel. The wire wasn’t through the loops yet.
https://editor.p5js.org/CaydenHorne/sketches/Q6AGXq7NR
In this assignment, I took inspiration from Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), Natura morta. I used this assignment to take the opportunity to understand how to use the (x, y, w, h) dimensions, as well as experiment a bit with the bezier shape. Thish then led to using the transform function.
Here is the link to my code!
