arielle bryn chapin

An ongoing mini-blog for data visualizations, interactives, and other fun things. So far I've looked the colors of each frame in the trailers of two different documentaries about the Nxivm cult, compared the schedules of a Twitter bot and real users, and more!

Created (researched, wrote, edited) a video about "rainmakers" that tried to overcome nature at the turn of the 20th century (and how their legacy has lived on). Making videos has been one major focus of my current learning sabbatical, and more are in the works! I've always loved history and storytelling and will get sucked into hours of research about niche topics; now I'm using those strengths to create and tell stories that others can learn from.

We created a spice kiosk that uses computer vision to recommend what college students should add to their food. Ideated, iterated, and built with a group for a design course.

I designed and prototyped an interactive wall for my undergraduate honors thesis. I ran experiments with my prototype, testing and understanding the specifics of the physical-control interactions through user trials. Presented at the 2017 Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference (Student Design section) in Yokohama, Japan.

I created a web layout framework inspired by Masonry that allows web developers to add “tiles” to an auto-layout grid while providing specific positions to important tiles.