Ophelie Tousignant

This project changes light colors based on movement within a stairwell. It deals with reflective/non-reflective surfaces that further manipulate the overall effect of the light in the stairwell area, creating an other-worldly experience.

Fragmented Energy is a prototype for a peripheral display unit that displays energy usage of a building on campus.

Inspired by the extraordinary hues of sunrise and sunset, Total Internal Reflection provides guidance, relaxation, and delight to visitors of the Pittsburgh International Airport.

Digital Fireflies revolves around the idea of a passive interaction between the physical realm and digital interaction. Building on the preferences of the home owners, we’ve set up a projection system that imitates fireflies but also reacts to the temperature of the immediate surrounding context. This display as a passive overlay on the residential landscape is bound to create a soothing experience and elevate the sense of the space and nature as well.

This installation displays the emotions of the users, compiling and collecting stats for the general emotional state of the company and displaying it both inside and outside the glass walls of the bridge.

To investigate the role of smells in remembering loss of cultural elements

In a busy and constantly changing world, it can be hard to keep up with everyone we meet or everything we learn. The result of integrating core principles of associative learning into this project should be a device that would tackle this problem by making visual aids for daily use, so we can remember who we met or what small task we learned to do more accurately and more reliably.