Fall 2022

List of Things We Worked On This week, we worked on quite a few aspects of our project. Image Gallery Project Plan Find our project plan here under TASK LIST + MATERIAL LIST. List of Plans for Next Week

While deserts are often associated as silent, vast, empty, and isolated, they are misunderstood as without life. The When Life Meets Life Interactive Pyramids installation would like to show that the desert is filled with diverse forms of life that react to life differently according to different circumstances. The installation Read more…

Overview Concept Relationship to previous work (e.g. inspiration from other artworks) WaLTR robot designed by Dr. Kiju Lee from Texas A&M university moves on a flat surface with wheels which expand as legs when climbing up the stairs. TurboQuad wheels that can operate as wheels and legs based on the Read more…

Group 1 Team members: Rosanna Zhou, Shiyuan Tian, Liuliu Zhou, Jiapei Yao Presentation slide Description of the Project The project “Descendent of the Desert” is a wearable interactive art installation based on our speculation on how future humans can adapt to the environment to make their living in the desert. Read more…

Link to Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GVFxDdk208gUwB9femBQUSTbFcdlPazEznV7Jgg0_6Q/edit?usp=sharing Project Theme and Main Idea Our idea brings to life an oasis of light in the desert, which will invoke a sense of remembrance to what deserts once were. Deserts used to have lakes and were blooming with more life than they are today. The Oasis Read more…

Team Members: Kevin Chu, Swostik Pati, Shreya Goel, Erica Wu Interaction with the Environment Desert terrain is often misunderstood as a dry place without life. However, the desert is still part of nature and has life to it, with flora and fauna native to its environment. The living stones are Read more…

Group: Jiapei, Shiyuan, Rosanna, Lexie Our project wants to discuss how the desert, as a special immersive environment, influences people’s subjective perception and concentration. According to some scientific reports, exposure to a monotonous sensory environment could elicit reports indicating aberrant subjective experience and altered time perception. Desert, which often gives Read more…

Team: Amy, Armaan, Injoo, Pranav About Project Artificial Arthropod is a robot inspired by desert arthropods. Artificial Arthropod recognizes light stimuli and digs a burrow to hide under the sand. After a couple of seconds, the robot comes back to the surface and continues moving. Interaction with Desert Desert arthropods Read more…