Project Ideas for DePaul

It would be great to add new immersive art projects to the IRL space; especially cool would be art that could be exhibited at a museum.

There are many opportunities to do cool things here.

• the pinball machine in our space; reimagine it! What could the interaction be? hot swappable …

I would love to study alertness and optimize people's time spent alert (maybe even revolutionizing how we schedule workdays for optimal individual productivity, and/or measure chronic fatigue/long covid in partnership with psychology).

To do this requires (1) measures of alertness from physiological sensors (i.e. pupil and blink …

I learned a lot of lessions during my PhD and I would love to continue studying certain aspects of attention. In particular:

• The LED slowly changing in the peripheral vision has promise as a measure of focus; other researchers are interested in it. It would be great to advance this …

I would love to build an immersive room on campus, building off of my work with a roving guitarstand and responsive setup. I'd love to:

• run experiments with my old system to measure whether the immersive experience causes guitarists to lose themselves more in their playing vs without.
• upgrade this …

I'm deeply interested in the underlying principles of interface design. I see a lot of opportunity to test:

• how do people build concepts of their tools? (in other words, let's run a test to understand whether a multifunction device like a phone always is distracting. Do all phones carry that …

It would be great to build out some systems for us to use in the IRL:

• Air quality monitoring and smart air filtration system. Display diagnostics, control the air filters based on air quality in the space, etc.
• Current monitoring/IoT device that can scale-- a network of current monitors …

I would love to work on two aspects of physiological monitoring:

• EDA sensing is usually done at one frequency with two electrodes on the inner wrist. It turns out there are a lot of problems with electrode contact and movement; it's also been shown that people have completely different EDA …

I'd love to build tools that help us achieve our goals, and help us be self-disciplined. I'd love to make

• a watch/time-keeping device that has no actual times/numbers on it. What does it do to our perception of time?
• a device that accepts your smartphone when you're at …