Both reading, “Feminist Data Visualization” and “Representation and the Necessity of Interpretation“, made me realize one keynote point: What’s behind data? What makes data be data? For my whole life, I always believed that data was a representative of facts. By reading both articles, I realized that data is not …
From the previous blog, Wearable Technology: Problem Solving Approach?, I decided to continue with the UV detector idea. The idea is pretty simple, to make a wearable technology that can tell you if you get too much sunlight. Previously, I wanted to make an accessory like a wristband. But after …
Every map has a purpose. That way, every map needs to tell a story. For this week assignment, I want to tell people if they are lost in Time Square and looking for a place to eat. It’s not innovative I know. Yelp does that. But hey, at least this …
When I make a project, I always try to think why I do want to make it, who do I want to approach, and how can it solve people’s problem. Taking wearable technology class, I do want to learn how to implement the ideas to products. This field is actually …
The first week assignment of Impossible Maps, I tried to use the map tile style from Mapbox. In the second week class, we tried to put data into our maps. And for this assignment, I combined both the Mapbox GL and Geojson. I’ve been playing around with data viz using …
It’s always interesting to learn about impossible things. When I learned in the first class that the map we see in our Google Map is actually might be not what the real world looks like, I had a thought that anyone can make their own maps and make others believe …
Since I’m not interested in taking part in any stage performances, I had not thought about stage lights and how to control them. It was my first time to know such things exist. And I was also impressed how improved the technology is to control such a complex system. Even …
What is Tilt Switch? Tilt switches are instruments that can detect orientation or inclination. They are digital sensors which only turn on/off by tilting to one side and the other. As Adafruit stated, tilt switches are “poorman’s accelerometer”, meaning they are inexpensive, small, low-power, and easy-to-use. Since tilt switches are digital …
I’m always bad at music. Neither do I have a background in music. Sure I was playing piano and guitar when I was a kid, but it was because my mom made me to. Since then, I’ve never played it anymore. So, making a MIDI controller was very challenging to …
When we want to make an interactive product, it is very useful to understand the interaction design framework first. After read the “Interaction Design Sketchbook” by Bill Velprank, it opened up my perspective on how to design an interactive product. Designing an interaction is not the same as designing a …
