Projects

Team: Diego Borro, Will Carter, Todd Furmanski, Tripp Millican, Kurt MacDonald, Jonathan Mooser, Leo Natanian, Glenn Song, Erik Nelson, Monica Adjemian

Advisor(s): Scott S. Fisher, Victor LaCour, Suyay You, Julian Bleecker

Chôjô is a research project that investigates the possibilities of collaborative, persistent, location-specific experiences that layer 3D virtual worlds over the physical world. This research has led to a Chôjô... »

Team: Stephen Erin Dinehart

Advisor(s): Scott Fisher, Julian Bleecker, Marsha Kinder, Dennis Summers, Peggy Weil

"Journey of Jin" is a transmedial play experience centered on mobile media, location-based entertainment, a comic book, and other web-based media. As the thesis project of IMD MFA graduate... »

Team: William Carter, Interactive Media; Leslie Liu, IMSC

Advisor(s): Scott Fisher, Julian Bleecker, Mark Bolas

Location 33 (like a concatenated record rpm) is a mobile folk album distributed across space and time. By using a mobile phone or PDA, a listener can hear a music... »

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Advisor(s): Scott S. Fisher, Kenji Kohiyama

1. Wearable Environmental Media Project - Japan (Technology development collaboration with Keio University, Japan – at KEIO ) This research project explores potential applications of location-based information services over wireless... »

Team: William Carter, Todd Furmanski, Kurt MacDonald, Tripp Millican, Aaron Meyers

Advisor(s): Mark Bolas, Scott Fisher

MobZombies is a zombie-fleeing game where a player's movement controls an avatar in the game space. Players run away from virtual zombies by actually running. The objective of the game... »

Team: Jess Rosenblatt, Jason Harlan, Marc Tuters, Vincent Diamante, Erin Dinehart, Justin Hall

Advisor(s): Julian Bleecker

The Mad Prophet challenges toys that track. The doll is meant to be part of a fictional product launch by a major toy manufacturer in a near (but slightly skewed)... »

Team: Will Carter, Todd Furmanski, Kurt MacDonald, Tripp Millican

Advisor(s): Scott S. Fisher, Mark Bolas, Julian Bleecker

This project defines a course research aimed at developing a location-aware mobile-weblogging system. Through use of the Patholog system, users are able to engage in a form of personal storytelling... »

Team: Michael Brinker, Jenova Chen, Julie Dillon, Leonard Lin, Bradley Newman

Advisor(s): Scott Fisher, Perry Hoberman

Speck is a smart presence device that allows users to connect with friends and share information. Using a combination of Active RFID and Bluetooth wireless technologies, Speck will be able... »

Team: Scott Ruston, Jennifer Stein, Brad Newman, William Carter, Tripp Millican

Advisor(s): Julian Bleecker

Hidden within, beneath and behind the surface landmarks of Los Angeles lurks a world of mystery and imagination, of fact and fiction—a world we walk and drive past everyday without... »

Team: Julian Bleecker, Peter Brinson

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Vis-à-Vis Games takes ordinary electronic gaming off your old-fashioned video game console and desktop PC and moves it out into the real world. This is the future of electronic gaming... »

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Advisor(s): Julian Bleecker

With the proliferation of “WiFi” networks and the mobile devices that access them, the public and private space surrounding us has become literally soaked through with Internet data. The promise... »

Team: Susana Ruiz, Kellee Santiago, Kurt MacDonald

Advisor(s): Julian Bleecker

projectCAR began as a project for the graduate seminar "Design and Technology for Mobile Experiences," taught by Julian Bleecker. It offered graduate students the opportunity to develop an informed sense... »