aireForm is a dress of many forms that fluidly morph from one to another, animated by air. Its forms evoke classic feminine silhouettes, from sleek to supple to striking. Garments are a medium through which we may alter our apparent forms to project different personas. As our personas shift from moment to moment, so too does aireForm, living and breathing with us.

Collaborating and media creation are difficult tasks, both for people and for network architectures. CoCam is a self-organizing network for real-time camera image collaboration. Like all camera apps, just point and shoot; CoCam then automatically joins other media creators into a network of collaborators. Network discovery, creation, grouping, joining, and leaving is done automatically in the background, letting users focus on participation in an event. We use local P2P middleware and a 3G negotiation service to create these networks for real-time media sharing. CoCam also provides multiple views that make the media experience more exciting–such as appearing to be in multiple places at the same time. The media is immediately distributed and replicated in multiple peers, thus if a camera phone is confiscated other users have copies of the images.

ContextController is a second screen social TV application that augments linear broadcast content with related contextual information. By utilizing existing closed-captioning data, ContextController gathers related explanatory video content, displaying this in real-time synchronized to the original content.

Droplet is a tangible interface which explores the movement of information between digital and physical representations. Through light-based communication, the project allows information to be easily extracted from its digital form behind glass and converted into mobile, tangible representations, altering its form and our perception of the information.

"Encephalodome" (working title) is an art+science game under development for the dome projection (planetarium) setting of the Lower Eastside Girls Club. Players will wear inexpensive Electroencephalography (EEG) devices to both control and contribute to the game. They can expressively explore science through activities like concentrating, meditating, closing their eyes, and moving their bodies. By fusing many kinds of science data sets into a vast spatial experience, “Encephalodome” will engage players in natural beauty beyond the scales of human perception. "Encephalodome" gameplay focuses on ocean acidification: increased pollution is changing the pH of the oceans, thus affecting the growth of sea vertebrates and shellfish. "Encephalodome" will invite its users to interactively role-play prototypical sea organisms like coral, plankton, jellyfish, and lobster through decades of increased carbon emissions.

In Linear Mandala, a single participant wears a custom headset outfitted with an electroencephalography (EEG) sensor. The participant walks alongside a row of monitors and speakers. Video, sound, and the physical headset are designed to support contemplation. In real time, a shadow-like avatar pushes a ball of objects representing each participant's brain activity. The participant must maintain a consistent brain state for the avatar and ball to move forward in tandem with his physical movement.

MobileP2P aims to magically populate mobile devices with popular video clips and app updates without using people's data plans by opportunistically connecting nearby devices together when they are in range of each other.

Functionally, television content delivery has remained largely unchanged since the introduction of television networks. NeXtream explores an experience where the role of the corporate network is replaced by a social network. User interests, communities, and peers are leveraged to determine television content, combining sequences of short videos to create a set of channels customized to each user. This project creates an interface to explore television socially, connecting a user with a community through content, with varying levels of interactivity: from passively consuming a series, to actively crafting one's own television and social experience.

When an environmental crisis strikes, the most important element to saving lives is information. Information regarding water depths, spread of oil, fault lines, burn scars, and elevation are all crucial in the face of disaster. Much of this information is publicly available as infrared satellite data. However, with today’s technology, this data is difficult to obtain, and even more difficult to interpret. Open Infrared, or OpenIR, is an ICT (information communication technology) offering geo-located infrared satellite data as on-demand map layers and translating the data so that anyone can understand it easily. OpenIR will be pilot tested in Indonesia, where ecological and economic vulnerability is apparent from frequent seismic activity and limited supporting infrastructure. The OpenIR team will explore how increased accessibility to environmental information can help infrastructure-challenged regions to deal with environmental crises of many kinds.

Qooqle allows people to reshape their interactions with computing and reorganize the world’s information through their casual conversations and habitual gestures. Qooqle combines mobile, cloud, and social media to draw people closer to computing and make computers more invisible. The multi-modal user interface of Qooqle allows people to engage with one another and the information world more naturally.

StackAR explores the augmentation of physical objects within a digital environment by abstracting interfaces from physical to virtual implementations. StackAR is a Lilypad Arduino shield that enables capacitive touch and light base communication with a tablet. When pressed against a screen, the functionality of StackAR extends into the digital environment, allowing the object to become augmented by the underlying display. This creates an augmented breadboard environment where virtual and physical components can be combined and prototyped in a more intuitive manner.

Messages are coded into all of the objects and environments around us. Some message are obvious, some are subtle; some are understood through social or contextual associations, some are perceived on a more primal level. These messages can be shaped by the design of objects; through their materials, forms and textures. Tactile Allegory is an exploration into the use of form as a means of communicating information through physical objects; the ‘objectified’ medium. Initial explorations into form-changing technologies combine the fabrication strategies of digital materials with the artistic narrative of quilting to create almost ‘pixelated’ surfaces which can be reconfigured to represent different objectified information. Future work includes developing this into several applications of different scales, from jewellery to clothing to furniture, and communicating personal information to the users through this objectified medium.

Truth Goggles attempts to decrease the polarizing effect of perceived media bias by forcing people to question all sources equally by invoking fact -checking services at the point of media consumption. Readers will approach even their most trusted sources with a more critical mentality by viewing content through various "lenses" of truth.