How-old.net is a website that uses Face API technology to guess your age. Over the years, Microsoft Bing Image Search have built some of the best image understanding capabilities in the industry. It was first…
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Reading response: Art and the API
One of the common problems of being an API client/user is figuring out which routes an API provides or what data is available. For instance, what can I do with this specific API to build…
Hex Edit An Image
WK2 Reading Response: As we may think
The author foresaw the influence of increasingly dominant technologies on innovation and progress, predicted a time when the process of complex problem solving would become dependent on the researchers’ ability to find and link in…
Wk1– Reading Response
The author of the article presented a relatively well-balanced argument among a few key principals about the web use- universality, decentralization, democracy, and among all, openness. It is a informative discussion, and all the points…
Storage Wars -Wget to scrape website
This week’s assignment is to use Wget to scrape a website. Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and as usual, all the Valentine’s Day-related commercials has started to appear everywhere in life, I thought the…
Pcomp Final Project: Hand-warming device
Background/Concept Development A problem can be catalyst for a solution. If a creative solution has broad use, it might be a good starting point for a project. I’ve always have a penchant for fashion; wearable…
ICM final project- Average Age of 1st Marriage Among Countries
The inspiration for this project started after I watched a video named The Girl Effect, which is a movement based on the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world.…
Pcomp: final project presentation
Last week’s class was a productive user studies class. When I decided to make a pair of heated gloves, I thought this is something practical and manageable…. like many things in life, it doesn’t always…
Pcomp User Studies Questions & Progress
User Studies Questions: 1) Who is the ideal user? 2) Feeling of device: – Gender-wise, do you think this kind of wearable is more proper for one gender to the other? Why? – Compared to…