Vanessa Roa

My project idea for this final project is to return to the Greed Spider, the first idea I explored in the beginning of the semester but rather than have the spider be controlled by simply me or sensors that are triggered by “sudden movement”, I want to have the spider be controlled by different users …

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I wanted to iterate on a point I brought up in class that I didn’t really get to explain the other day because I had trouble articulating my thoughts on the spot. I remember coming across the “Great Wall of Facebook” article last semester, and being taken up by the story of the intense competition …

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I posted about the GreedSpider Project over at my Blog. Here’s a link to follow to my post.

Without looking up the definition right away, the word Interaction conjures up images of people connecting and emotionally responding to each other through recognized vocal and colloquial body language and speech patterns. Through these body and facial cues, we interact not just on a vocal level but a physical one as well. Of course, the actual …

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