ArtAbstractor

This was a group project in which me and two teammates (who were all in the same traditional hand-drawn art club) wanted to make an app for using current features of our nearby environment to generate interesting art that thematically fit those parameters. This involved converting a bunch of sensor data regularly recorded from a user’s phone to components that when combined, could create interesting context-dependent art.

We began the process with deciding what features we could and should extract from our mobile phones and user data. We were able to collect data relating to a user’s current location temperature, altitude, ambient luminance levels, and some additional environment qualities. We then got some metrics from the people behind the phones, taking into account things like user-reported mood that they would be prompted to answer, and some biometrics from the health apps in the phone: like recent activity levels, time slept, heart rate/pulse, etc.