sunshyness The portfolio of Akshay KothariAkshay Kothari
akothari [at] stanford.edu
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Brain Melody
Inspired by the movie “The diving bell and the butterfly”, where Jean Bauby wrote a full book only by blinking his left eyelid, we worked towards creating a musical instrument that uses no hands, no feet – only head. We hacked a EEG wireless headset to allow the player to control music by his level of concentration
Farmers’ Exchange
Continuous, natural speech input to voice user interfaces enables a conversational interaction, but requires sophisticated speech recognition. Farmers’ Exchange assesses the usability impact of restricting input to isolated words in a voice-only search interface.
chirp
text + 140 characters = twitter = dry, non-emotional, spammy broadcasting
audio + 7 seconds = chirp = personal, emotional, touching broadcasting
ZenMail
BAM! [Cars crashing]. If they had been using Zenmail to listen to their email a Ferrari could have been saved … rather than (illegally) squinting at your tiny blackberry screen, you are listening to the speech synthesized music of your email after it has been prioritized by your AI Zenmail secretary. Hands free, eyes free safe access to email while driving