A new mobile information system and interface that allows users to save and share advice and information with members of a personally defined network. 2degrees can keep track of personal details, connect with permission to the databases of friends, and access the kind of things friends would know when they aren't available. (Description from Media Design Program website.)

A Machine Frame of Mind invites speculation about the wonderfully strange role of artificial intelligence in our lives. Using computer vision as design material, the project presents the machine

Alteract is the first really new system for training actors to emerge in more than a generation. For one thing, it's the Actor's Studio in a Box: an interactive, networked, affordable, accessible tool for the novice and the professional alike to hone the crafts that actors have used for millennia. (Description from the Media Design Program website.)

Anatomy of Order takes a curatorial approach to conversations, Google searches, newspapers, and common objects. By systematically collecting, re-collecting, ordering, and re-ordering, the project explores the gap between perception and truth in the everyday.

Situated in a near-future autonomous automobile, Dash Garden is a system of interactive objects that are physically responsive to both the user and the environment. At the point where active information display and active user input meet, the system transforms raw data into a personal ecology of shape-shifting devices.

ASOTYPE is an innovation in graphics, images, and text in motion that communicates vital information in a compelling and involving way. ASOTYPE does not try to replace the existing sign system, but improves it and gives users the power to create their own unique, individual ASOTYPE. ASOTYPE is not symbolic but readable, its animated characteristics rendering it both more intuitive and more communicative. (Description from the Media Design Program website.)

Blindspot is an audio information system for the automobile. It provides sound cues that address safety, car status, navigation, and other location based information. Sonification is the use of nonverbal audio to convey information. The Geiger Counter is an good example where the rate of clicks indicated particular levels of radiation. (Description from Media Design Program website.)

The CHARAKTORS Project is a modular system that allows for playful characterization of mobile devices through malleable materials.

Cinephonic is the name for a collaborative approach to music-based filmic narratives that challenges the music video and reinvents the musical. First Words is a short film that uses the cinephonic approach: the vision of director/designer Theo Alexopoulos was developed in tandem with the words and beats of hip-hop artist Matre and producer Jericho-J. First Words depicts the struggle of a musician trying to find his voice in a world without individual freedoms.