tamara m lackner - portfolio

 

Chameleon   2000

(MIT Media Laboratory)
Digital diary and keepsake collector for girls.  This project is in the conceptual stage, however, a first working prototype will be completed by January 26, 2000.
 

The Parent Trap    1999-2000
(MIT Media Laboratory)

A software system for television producers and parents to digitally enhance and deliver information about educational programming.
 

Musical Fireflies    1999
(MIT Media Laboratory with Gili Weinberg and Jason Jay)
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Movie of Musical Fireflies
 Digital rhythm toys that communicate with each other and allow users to learn about mathematical patterns in music.  Users input layered beat patterns and beam them back and forth between Fireflies.  Each Firefly has a unique instrument sound which can also be traded back and forth between players.
 
 

Sensory Puzzle    1998-1999
(MIT Media Laboratory with Kelly Dobson, Roy Rodenstein, and Luke Weisman)
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Digital musicalpuzzle where you put together a song.  Each piece of the puzzle contains a musical phrase from a popular classical composition.  The object of the game is to place the pieces together so that the phrases of the song play in the correct order.
 

Collaboration Stations    1998
(MIT Media Laboratory)
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Digital desktop stations that integrate written and computational artifacts in K-12 classrooms.
 
 

Collaboratory1997-1998
(HRL Laboratories, LLC.)
Collaborative business meeting system.  Multiple users can conduct business from the comfort of their offices with all necessary resources available to them as well as high quality audio connections and high speed data transfer rates.  Because apatent for the graphical user interfaces (GUI) for this project is currently being filed I cannot disclose any more information on this project.
 

Designing Perception1996
(UCLA Human Perception Laboratory)

A booklet created to illustrate the best known perceptual illusions. These techniques are often used in designing interfaces, graphics, and other works of art.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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