Computational Human Centered Design

Mathew Schwartz, an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture and Design, has been working on TOCABI (Torque Controlled compliAnt BIped) for eight years. His team began working on the robot’s lower legs in 2013 and the upper body design in 2016.

With only one elective left to fulfill her chemical engineering degree requirement, Monica Torralba ’18 decided to do something a little unconventional. After talking with some friends in the industrial design department in the School of Art + Design, the Bloomingdale, N.J., native and Albert Dorman Honors College student decided to take a mechanics and electronics class.

For most, the stark black and white images produced through computed tomography (CT) may not ignite much imagination beyond the routine bone scans that we'd see at the radiologist's lab. However, for NJIT Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design, Mathew Schwartz, the technology has become the creative medium by which he is building a library of digital art, steeped in the niche field of x-ray photography.

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Sculptural Motion was a year long project that dealt with technology, sculpture, dance, and martial arts.

Research EEG Navigation in Virtual Reality Authorcadop This project is a demonstration of using the emotiv Epoc wireless EEG device as a navigation system for virtual reality. The work was done during employment at the University of Michigan 3D Lab...