Undergraduate Consortium

• Rosemary Jones
• Mira Petrillo
• Maxx Naoyuki Yamasaki

• Alwyn Merry Mouton
• Ioan Butai
• Anisha Uppugonduri

Undulate // Aira Daniella San Agustin, Erin Ice-Johnson

"Undulate" is an interactive, portable tent encourages social interactions between people and environment through sound and spatial change. Mechanically, the space expands and contracts in accordance with the amount of people inside, while a sonic landspace becomes more developed and fleshed out as more enter. The use of nitinol memory wires to control the tent's "breathing effect" is a unique element to its overall presentation as it provides a more organic and natural movement, or undulation, in the midst of the arduino, probes, and sensors embedded within it.

Borders of the Forest //

George Zaya, Andrew Fishburn, and Jacob Lyons

Immersive Shadow Stage // Elizabeth Katheder, Tianhang Liu , Mackenzie Hong

Your shadow is unique to you, responds to your movements, originates from you, therefore it is a part of you. Heavily inspired by Professor Yoshiyuki Miwa and Professor Yoko Nishi, our prototype, a two-sided panel in which participants cannot see, hear, nor physically touch each other, but interact and communicate with their shadows and gestures, allows participants to communicate and perform without verbal language. The participant stands in-between the camera/projector and the silk-screen; as they gesture, the thermal camera captures their movement, and projects it on the silk-screen. When two or more users are on opposite sides of the silk screen, the projector not only displays their shadow, but the shadows of the unseen person behind the screen.

H(you)manh // Olivia Reyes, Brian Muise, David Pearce

h(you)manh” is an object embodying obscurity. Through the interaction with it, you may reveal a greater understanding and measure your own willingness to seek a solution. As the initial unknown about “h(you)manh” gives way to an understanding of the system, a compelling engagement emerges between the object, yourself, and your own curiosity. “h(you)manh” is not just an object, idea, or experience between someone and something; it is an examination into personal exploration as well as an understanding of what it means to be human.

Bottling the Rain // Kholi Daniels, Varissa Washington, Carrie Chacon

Nature is a worldly medicine that others tend to forget. Just being outside and interacting with nature can improve creativity, attention span, and productivity. Aromas tend to work with our memory and emotions to put us in a different state of mind. "Bottling the Rain" is a fountain that absorbs rain, bacteria, and oxygen to create personalized aromas. We would like for our prototype to replicate this phenomenon, making sure that it is relatively light to mirror the effect it has on your mood. It’s meant to calm the body and reconnect you to your senses.

Consent Mannequin // Amanda Federico, Hannah Shulski

One in three women experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime; 91% of rape and sexual assault victims are female. Taking statistics like these into account, the Consent Mannequin calls attention to this problem by showing users negative responses to non-consensual touch. The Consent Mannequin is a rough prototype of a touch responsive device, lighting up in corresponding color gradients to levels of comfortability, as well as emitting corresponding sounds of distress.