In their effort to bring concepts of network science and big data to the public and especially youth audiences, New York Hall of Science is holding its first annual Big Data Festival to show off…
MindRider wins “All American Makers” on Science Channel
We won a reality show! Strange but true. Watch the MindRider compete against other inventions, including a hillside remote-controlled tractor, an indestructible battery-charging flashlight, and a…
DuKode/OpenIR projects at Knight News Challenge
The Knight Foundation has a new News Challenge with the focus of “How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?” This competition was a useful way for DuKode and…
OpenIR Wins SXSW Award and more
On March 10, SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest hosted the Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards, named for one of the founders of the SXSW Interactive Festival. When he passed away in 1999,…
OpenIR Returns From Indonesia Seeking Your Feedback.
Arlene and the OpenIR team deployed their data viewers and crowd maps in Indonesia throughout January, the height of rainy season throughout Indonesia. Jakarta flooded heavily on January 16, and…
Mandala Memory for the iPhone released.
The DuKode Studio presents Zoe Keramea‘s Mandala Memory, an elegant update on the classic matching game. The images of hand-cut paper mandalas are a series of subtle unfoldings, variations…
MindRider in Wired
EEG bike helmet MindRider, Arlene’s first project at the MIT Media Lab, has gotten a bit of press. First there’s Madhumita Venkataramanan’s article in Wired UK, as part of an…
EEG Tutorials and Press
EEG is an old technology that being newly unleashed on the wider public, though cheap devices like the NeuroSky TGAM. DuKode’s Arlene Ducao has used the TGAM in several projects, including…
Maker Faire: Mud, Tweets & OpenIR
On September 30, Arlene gave an OpenIR presentation at the World Maker Faire in Flushing, Queens. Her notes are below. In March 2012, the educational hardware company KeegoTech issued a…
OpenIR Community Partner & Adviser Meetings.
OpenIR’s core team, including DuKode principals Arlene Ducao and Ilias Koen, met in June with community partner UN Global Pulse, adviser Lela Prashad of NiJel.org, and Liz Barry and Leif…