ITP Alum and Student Win NYC Media Lab Awards

Thursday, Oct 17, 2019

Someone wearing a smart apron stands in front of a cutting board, text on the screen reads "this smart apron prototype lets users navigate online videos through a mobile app"

Recipe Controller

ITP Alum Itay Niv (Let's Read a Story) and ITP Student Anna Oh (Recipe Controller) won awards at the NYC Media Lab Summit.

  • $1,000: Top Prize, Data Science

Let’s Read a Story

Itay Niv, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)

This project is an exploration on how computers and technology can turn story time into a conversation between parents, children and a computer. It takes the corpus and investigates the connections between different characters and themes in a new and fun way using machine learning language models.

 

  • $500: Second Prize, Future Interfaces & Spatial Computing

Anna Oh, Recipe Controller: NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)

This smart apron prototype makes cooking simpler and cleaner. Users can navigate online videos simply by tapping conductive symbols on the apron.

 

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