Invited Talk, Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop 10, organized in conjunction with 2023 Conference of Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, Vancouver, BC, CA
An update on Open Access and machine learning at the Met.
Invited Talk, Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop 6, organized in conjunction with 2019 Conference of Computer Vision Pattern Recognition, Long Beach, CA, USA
Addresses the history of the Met’s collection in digital form and what makes it unique. Explores the quirks in the data, the categorization challenges, and proposes use cases for machine learning.
Panel, MW17: Museums and the Web 2017, Cleveland, OH, USA
Served as a peer reviewer on a panel critiquing recent museum apps - iOS and Android, touch tables, kiosks and bespoke hardware, as distinct from websites. Chaired by Stephanie Pau, alongside Ty Pierce, Laura Mann, and Shannon Darrough.
Case Study, Museum Computer Network Annual Conference 2015, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Way-finding is a common challenge for museums, often thought to require significant time and resources to solve. The Met’s complex floor plan made developing a useful mobile map for the Met App particularly challenging, especially given our small team and tight timeline. Rather than building an elaborate solution based on assumptions, we quickly developed an MVP that worked on both native platforms. Using a build-measure-learn feedback loop, we iteratively improved the Map based on visitor feedback, enhancing the overall visitor experience.
Case Study, Museum Computer Network Annual Conference 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada
Presented with Laura Beiles. In the summer of 2012 we built an online sound map and asked the public to contribute field recordings from their lives, as the sound component of the MoMA Studio: Common Senses space held in conjunction with the Century of the Child exhibition. The map grew to over a hundred recordings - wind turbines in Andalucía and Ireland, chanting from Japan, a manifestation in Madrid, streets in London, a soundwalk through the Museum itself.
Case Study, Museum Computer Network Annual Conference 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada
Presented with Shannon Darrough. In July 2013 MoMA launched a rebuilt version of the MoMA App, created to replace the handheld audio wands distributed in the museum. The talk covered the app’s features and design, an overview of the new system’s architecture, the design collaboration with MoMA’s Education department, and the agile process the development team ran with partners at Pivotal Labs.
Poster Demo, New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2006, Paris, France
Poster demo of spinCycle, a synesthetic turntable that lets you arrange and play colours visually and musically. A camera takes the place of the tonearm: rather than a needle playing grooves in a record, spinCycle generates sound from the colours it sees as the DJ arranges brightly coloured plexiglass discs on the spinning platter, rearranging them on the fly to build a new soundtrack.
Session, O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2006, San Diego, CA, USA
Presented with Michael Jefferson (NYU ITP). Tuesday 7 March 2006, 2:35–3:20pm, Elizabeth Ballroom B.
Demo, ETel Fair, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA
Shown at the ETel Fair, an informal evening event introducing garage inventors and their below-the-radar creations to a larger audience. Exhibited alongside Dee Harvey and Jenny Chowdhury of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
