“Wearable” is a term used in fields such as research, fashion, consumer tech, HCI, gaming, healthcare, performing arts, visual art and design. Despite this broad spectrum of applications, “wearable” design across disciplines shares a common challenge: designing for the human body. In this class, we will explore the unique design conditions of creating wearable technology… Read more DM-GY 9103 Experimental Wearables Studio
This course will be a hands-on exploration of how to use sensors, microprocessors and other forms of input for making and performing interactive music & art. We will cover how to program a microcontroller (Arduino), how to attach sensors, and both theoretical and practical ideas regarding how to creatively and effectively use sensor data in… Read more DM-UY 4913 Creating Controllers for Live Performance
In this studio-based course, students will learn about and apply various protocols for controlling digital lighting for interactive, expressive, sculptural objects. While light-based art goes back centuries, the last few decades has seen an explosion of tools for creative output using various electric lighting fixtures and technologies. In addition to the technical aspects of control,… Read more DM-UY 4913 Crafting With Light
In this course, students will learn techniques and skills to build robotic puppets. These may act autonomously, or be reactive to external stimuli. Skills will include hands-on fabrication, the use of electronics and simple machines to create and realize engaging “beings”. These may be anthropomorphic or fanciful, and will be created in response to readings… Read more DM-GY 9103 Animatronics
This course uses the notion of The Instrument as a model for thinking about interaction design. Instruments facilitate creative expression. They amplify gestures into experiences. They transform the imperceptible into the perceptible. Using this broad definition of instrumentation, students will take experimental instruments as inspiration, leveraging creative coding and physical computing methods to create multisensory… Read more DM-GY 9103 Visual Music and Instrumentation
This course explores the intersection of technology, sustainability, and the arts, helping students create digital art and interactive works that may respond to the local NYC biosphere or remote environmental data. Through an investigation of sustainable computing, environmental data analysis, and fabrication techniques, students will design low-power, networked devices that gather and interpret environmental information… Read more DM-GY 9103 Sensory Ecology : Data, Networks, and the Biological World
This is a hands-on, project based studio course that pushes beyond typical notions of data visualization, examining ways that data can be transformed into embodied experiences. Students will engage with techniques in physical computing, haptic technologies and VR towards the creation of a series of unconventional data visualizations. Each project will interpret dynamic data sets,… Read more DM-UY 4913 Data Visceralization
This studio course introduces students to interaction design as a creative and a design practice. The course surveys application areas, supporting technologies and their impact on individual and group relationships. Group projects introduce the collaborative and interdisciplinary development process common in the professional technology and design. Students are expected to develop technology competencies, including software… Read more DM-GY 6143 Interaction Design Studio
This course is an introductory course on physical computing, with an emphasis on unusual and unique physical interactions. Students will use microcontrollers, lights, speakers, buttons, sensors, and actuators like motors to physicalize digital processes. Potential applications include art installations, games, and interface design among other fields. Sample syllabi
NB – this is a 7-week course! This course explores opportunities and limitations in designing physical interfaces for devices that communicate at a distance, primarily wirelessly. Physical, virtual, and social communication infrastructure will be used in the context of creating novel interactions. Students will learn to identify existing networked devices and objects, taking a critical… Read more DM-GY 9201 Physical Interfaces For Networked Devices