Final Project Documentation: A.R.E.A.

Featured Image Short Description Operation AREA (Awesome Robot Enters Assemble) is an Urban Intervention project by John Choi where an advanced human-size mobile manipulator robot enters real-world educational environments to teach young children the basic principles of robotics. The hypothesis

Final Project Timeline: A.R.E.A.

Awesome Robot Enters Assemble (AREA) (formerly Giant Robots Advancing Secondary Schools (GRASS)) is a project where an advanced 3.5 foot human-size mobile manipulator robot for doing human-size tasks is deployed in a high school classroom to teach the basic principles

R3 – VR Input Methods

While VR is several decades old, VR for the consumer market is still fairly unproven, undeveloped, and untested. Basically all input methods before the past decade were clunky, large, and very expensive. With Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard entering the fray, many

R2 – Response to Readings

On the X,Y,Z of Digital Storytelling: It is interesting how Samis attempts to create a formula for the effective creation of stories in the digital medium. X,Y, and Z is used for the Cartesian coordinate system and it can be

R1 – Response to Readings

Response to “Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative” by Richard Delgado: Fascinating creatures humans are. We are all the same species, and yet we live with both personal and institutional racism. Why is this so? Is this something

Engaging the Community and Telling Stories with Ubooly (2014)

  Ubooly is a stuffed animal with a smartphone or a tablet for face. The face is animated and tells “stories.” The Ubooly learns the user’s name, favorite color and interests. The Ubooly engages in an active voice conversation with the user, and