Youmna Aoukar

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Final Project:Tastebot an interactive tasting machine

Here is my final presentation:  tastebotpres And some pictures: and video  

Foodprint experimentations | modifications | success and failures…

I managed to hack the printer using a serial communication between processing and arduino. In this video , I am using key press “P” to activate the printer. Video: IMG_0890 I’ve also programed 4 buttons , when pressed , it activates the printing. Pressing each button replaces the current image being shown in the canvas. Example: …

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Very rough ideas

During this semester , I ve been exploring ways to connect physical objects to twitter in an interesting way. I’ve been trying to tackle issues in our every day activities. Sending a tweet throught a head massager or sending a smell to your loved one. I’ve been trying to create a narrative , a story …

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Interaction over distance…process

So after many thoughts and trials , I decided to use twitter… again to create the communication system! In my first project , the tweet antenna , I figured out how to use this system, but only when it comes to sending the tweet. That task was overall simple to do. However , I discovered …

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Interaction over distance | research | sketches

So for this project , I decided to continue with the idea of smell. But my goal is to built it this time! I made another sketch to explain what I initially wanted to do. And I also explain in more details the technologies I am going to use. This is how my project would …

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Social interaction | research | concept | presentation…and how it evolved…

  I started off this project by wanting to do a sort of public intervention and/or social intervention. I was really intrigued by the state of the toilets at parsons . So I started asking all the students what they thought was the problem in the toilets. And their answer was that most of the …

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Definition of Interaction

The simplest way to define Interaction is to say that it is a conversation between 2 entities.I recently read an article related to simplicity and interaction design.  I think  that simplicity can be a strong word to describe it: Interaction design is a simple , usable and expressive system. There are so many products out …

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