Teaching
Classes, workshops, tutorials and talks
CVCooper Union Continuing Education · Arduino 101
Nine weeks of Arduino for adults, most of whom had never worked with electronics. Week one: start a blog, look through the Arduino projects on Instructables, pick a favorite and write about why. By the end we were calibrating sensors and sending their data to Processing.
A student’s perspective: Mafe Izaguirre’s Arduino ChroniclesSapientNitro, New York
A physical computing workshop for my colleagues: components, sensors, a first Arduino program, and work by Camille Utterback, Zach Lieberman, Golan Levin and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Sabanci University, Istanbul
On January 3rd, 2011, I gave a lecture on human centric design at Sabanci University. This was really important for me, because I am a Sabanci graduate, and going back to my school to teach is a big honor. I talked about how the world is changing and why we need human centric design, how we can work with people who really need personal design products, and how to observe their needs.
NYU ITP
Resident researcher and TA. I wrote tutorials and held office hours and help sessions for incoming students. For ITP’s Sensor Workshop I wrote up force-sensing resistors (with Chang Lee, Anaid Ortigoza and Shagun Singh), the TSL230R light sensor, the LinkSprite JPEG camera and Bluetooth, and I updated the Arduino driver for a uOLED display in the open source Oled library.
The Oled library on GitHubACADIA 2010, The Cooper Union
Physical Computing @ NYU ITP, a two-day workshop for the conference.
ITP Summer Camp
I made two sessions. The first was about building your own multi-touch screen, with discussion around interacting with software and interacting with a physical device. The second was about biofeedback with Arduino: hands-on learning (we actually built biofeedback projects) and some possible applications.
Maker Faire San Francisco
I presented Poker Face. It was a great two days, full of biofeedback data that I collected from my body during the faire.
Quantified Self NYC Show & Tell #7
Hosted at ITP with Dan O’Sullivan. I ran the live stream.
NYU Department of Philosophy
I presented some of my projects, including my thesis, Poker Face, and the Rest of You class at ITP. I got really important feedback from the class. Thanks to Regina Rini for organizing.
Izmir University of Economics
A guest lecture: “What is interaction design good for?”
I managed and mentored designers and ran design critiques.