Gene Lu

Here's my presentation on reducing bio-cost through strategic ad placement for online videos. I'll have a more thorough writeup by this weekend. -GLU

Did you ever notice that whenever you order a drink at Starbucks, your drink is repeated three times by the employees? Did you also notice that there's a special order in which your drink is verbally constructed? Inspired by an article at Dubberly, I modeled this conversation to demonstrate a part of Starbucks' service design strategy.

In our first assignment in Information Visualization with Steve Duenes, we experimented with different approaches on one of William Playfair's charts from "The Statistical Breviary."

According to the Wiki, cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Ok, so when you think regulatory systems, you think toilets, right? Here's my attempt to show how the toilet is a self-regulating (closed-loop) system for Paul Pangaro's Cybernetics class. 

For my final project in Jason Santa Maria's Communicating Design class, I designed and prototyped a system for the MTA that informs people which train cars have standing room available. Who knows, maybe we'll see this in the upcoming subway stations running up and down NYC's east side in 2012.

MindFULL is a fork-rest device that serves as a digital reminder for users to put their utensils down after a certain amount of time (10–12 seconds). This post is specific to the technical side of MindFULL. Bon appétit!  

In this lab, we get two XBee radios to communicate with each other. No more umbilical cords yay!

Gary Larson - Didn't Wash Hands

High five? Nahhhhh...

Photo Courtesy of SVA MFA IxD

Inspired by local currency projects such as Berkshares and the Ithaca Hours, we created currency for each of the neighborhoods in New York City.