OPEN IxD: 2011 Thesis Festival

Thesis Presentation with The Class of 2011

OPEN IxD, the MFA Interaction Design Festival at the School of Visual Arts, was a celebration of the work from interaction design students who presented their thesis explorations alongside invited guests on stage at the Visual Arts Theater. Videos are also available for download from iTunes U to your iPhone and iPod touch.

• Jeff Kirsch : Bookish

  Bookish is an app for readers to capture a personal response to a book at a given time and place.

• Katie Koch : Cultivate

  Cultivate is a community for educators to engage in critical self-reflection and work together to improve teaching practices.

• Colleen Miller : Food for Thought

  Food for Thought is an app for improving personal eating habits by providing tips and a system for tracking nutrition changes.

• Angela Huang : Hobnobber

  Hobnobber a service for people suffering from social anxiety to practice social skills with face-to-face challenges.

• Evinn Quinn : Homebase

  Homebase is a social service that helps with finding the perfect room and roommate.

• John Finley : Locus

  Locus is a tool for facilitating the conversation between citizens and planners.

• Russ Maschmeyer : Motiv

  Motiv is an open source project that uses Kinect to give digital musicians direct control of emotional expression by interpreting their physical gestures in real-time.

• Stephanie Aaron : Oasis of Healing

  Oasis of Healing is an online space to inspire and empower architects, hospital administrators, and clinicians to incorporate nature into their facilities.

• Eric St. Onge : Obtract

  Obtract is a Mac app designed to track and reduce digital distraction for small teams of knowledge workers.

• Clint Beharry : Orbit

  Orbit is an application for researchers to explore the universe of their data and discover new ideas.

• Kristin Graefe : Postgeist

  Postgeist is a service that helps collect a digital legacy to pass on long-lasting memories to family and friends.

• Chia-Wei Liu : Secret Mission Me

  Secret Mission Me is a family-oriented activities app to foster better communication between children and their parents.

• Michael Katayama : Seneca

  Seneca is a web service that helps transfer time spent online at home into time for real world activities.

• Beatriz Vizcaino : Slow Eats

  Slow Eats is a tablet application that helps speed eaters slow down and savor food.

• Carmen Dukes : Springboard

  Springboard is a concept for a cooperative toy set that allows children the ability to create their own play environments.

• Gene Lu : Story Forest

  Story Forest is an app that shares and replays your memories at locations where they were made within a city.

• Derek Chan : Superzeroes

  Superzeroes is a location-based mobile game that takes place in the real world.