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Spring 2016 Assignments

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Assignment 0 (DUE 1/27)

This task will get you warmed up for the class, and will involve some creative brainstorming and a little preparation. Please click the link next to your name below, and follow the instructions to complete the assignment. We estimate it will take you 30 minutes, though you may choose to spend up to a couple hours if you like. These links will probably work best in Chrome browser. It is due at the beginning of the first class on 1/27. Please get started early and plan ahead in case you have questions.

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Assignment 1 (DUE 2/3)

  1. Sign up for the google group mailing list (1 min)
  2. Sign up Amazon Mechanical Turk (as a worker). (5 min)
  3. Read p11-16 from the glitch moment(um) (15 min)
  4. Recreate I will talk with anyone with some of your personal flavor. Add documentation of your recreation below.

Work

Assignment 2 (DUE 2/17)

  1. Read Objects of intense feeling: the case of the Twitter API
  2. Read Art and the API
  3. Complete one of the following projects and add documentation of your work below:
    • Create an HPI (human programming interface) that allows others to control some aspect of your life. You must run it for one week on yourself.
    • Creatively misuse an existing API in order to reveal something about the service.

Work

Assignment 3 (DUE 3/2)

  1. Read All technology is assistive
  2. Create an extension for someone else (a specific person). Two options:
  • Build a browser extension.
  • Create a physical apparatus/accessory that extends their capabilities or experience in some way.

Work

Assignment 4 (DUE 3/23)

Either:

  1. Hack or surveil someone for the purpose of improving your relationship with them in some way.
  2. Collect a specific piece of information from 100 people without their knowledge, and creatively document all the information you collected.

Work

Assignment 5 (DUE 4/6)

In pairs of two, create an experience or performance for the class to participate in. It can be up to 10 minutes. Things to think about:

  • Thinking back to week one, what are the social expectations, rituals, patterns, rules we have in this space and situation? What roles do we play? What happens when these things are broken, misinterpreted, changed?
  • How we might automate and control each other or the services we use in here?
  • How could we customize this experience? What are our individual needs or preferences in here?
  • Can you hack this class?
  • What are alternatives ways we might communicate or interact?
  • How can we automate understanding? What might we learn from computers looking at us?
  • What is the role of the audience members? What is the relationship between you as the leaders of the experience/performance and the rest of us?

For next week, prepare a short writeup of what you're going to do for the one-on-one meetings.

Partners

Assignment 6 (DUE 4/20)

Do one of the following:

  1. Create a system that amplifies a physical gesture (face, body, etc.), and document yourself or someone else using it.
  2. Computationally construct a single image that represents a group of people. If you use techniques like averaging or face alignment, you need to introduce a significant variation.
  3. Create a filter or adapter that helps you communicate with someone better using facial expressions or linguistic analysis. Consider starting with everything-but-the-chat.
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