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 Luna Production Assistant AI Drone Camera for Content Creators by Madeleine Gerst, Elliot Quasha, and Alexandr Barbaras Problem: Videographers struggle with heavy gear loads, tedious set-up processes for each shot, an intimidating learning curve and high prices for the hardware required to achieve professional grade content. Luna is an AI drone flight camera to reduce equipment load, invite interaction, and be controlled hands free. It records audio and video based on voice commands, following the subject as needed. Then it uploads all files to one location seamlessly. This was project by Western Washington University Industrial Design third year students with Ted Renwick of Logitech. January - March 2022. You can follow these young designers on Instagram: Madeleine Gerst @madeleinegdesign Elliot Quasha @equashadesign Alexandr Barbaras @alexandrbarr

The Walter D. Teague documentary is moving right along!  My last update was in October of 2012 and much has been accomplished since then. Writing and Story Structure Through October, November and December was focused work on writing the script.   In the midst of this process I was alerted to a new discovery. Grandson, Walter D. Teague III, just found and digitized 35 personal letters written by WDT Sr. dating from 1917 to 1942! Most were written to his wife Cecil about his time in a small community in Woodstock, NY where he concentrated on his illustration projects.   With this new information and after many weeks of continuous writing, multiple revisions and reviews, I completed a finished script in December 2012. Visual Evidence With the script in place, I then created a master list of all of the visual evidence that would be needed to communicate his story.  For a 90 minute film, this means about 1300 images and clips of video....

Concept Camera: The WVIL from Artefact on Vimeo . Nikki Pfarr is a Senior Design Strategist at Artefact and a former Ph.D. Candidate at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She is a founding partner of the Brains, Behavior & Design Group, and was previously a UX Designer at Google. Nikki holds a Master's of Design from IIT’s Institute of Design and a B.S. from MIT. She has led workshops on incorporating behavioral economics into user-centered design for the IIT Institute of Design Executive Education summer camp series, the Chicago chapter of the IxDA, and various Artefact clients. Nikki's original research on the implications of behavioral economics on design research practices was published in the 2010 Conference Proceedings of the International Design Research Society. Nikki Pfarr, Senior Design Strategist at Artefact   Nikki will be speaking at the  IDSA   Western Design Dialogue Conference 2012  in Seattle, May 4th and 5th. ...