Ryan Rotella

Computational Media

  • Pebble: A Social Aide

    Pebble: A Social Aide

    Concept: Supporting Socializing with Thoughtful Technology Technological interactions and social interactions are seen as polar opposites. Person-to-person interactions require attentive listening, open communication, and an effort to sustain dialogue. More often than not, technological interactions demand a user’s attention away from other people, their environment, and inertia to stay in one place and stare at…

  • Automatic Listener and Notetaker

    Automatic Listener and Notetaker

    Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/WCOvX293Jr Full sketch doesn’t work on web editor so here are the files to run locally. Also need Transformers python, Tensorflow.js, and other dependencies to run on machine. Link to files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aS-sNC9SU3haUDnsFN-2fC8SSKLuzDQK?usp=drive_link

  • Listening and Recording with P5.js

    Listening and Recording with P5.js

    As part of our eventual Final Project for ICM and Physical Computing, Trusha and I decided to use this ICM Homework to test how well P5.js can listen and record conversation. We want to do this for our larger goal of using technology to help people remember interactions and make note-taking social interactions seamless and…

  • The Upside Down V.2

    The Upside Down V.2

    Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/8JmpBweFV Concept As noted in the previous post about this assignment,  I wanted to make a scary alternate reality of a live video with ml5.js, showing an “Upside Down” world parallel to ours. This is an homage to the Netflix hit series, Stranger Things. I wanted the altered video to feel ominous and surreal. Breakdown I also…

  • Work in Progress: The Upside Down

    Work in Progress: The Upside Down

    Assignment Prompt “Work in pairs. Due in 2 weeks. Create and/or manipulate an image or video at the pixel level to create an alternative of the reality depicted in the source image. Describe in 1-3 keywords how your image feels different from the source image. For next week submit your work in progress and be…