Introduction to IT Convergence Engineering: Thanos's Finger Snap (Spring, 2019)

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I'm a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, working with Prof. Khai Truong in the DGP lab.

My research lies at the intersection of human–AI interaction, accessibility, and creativity support, with a special focus on improving music accessibility for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals. My projects include song signing (CHI ’23) to explore how music is experienced and expressed within Deaf culture, and ELMI (CHI ’25), an LLM-supported English lyrics to ASL gloss translation system.

I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at Ewha Womans University, where I was advised by Prof. Uran Oh (Human-Computer Interaction Lab) and Prof. Hyokyung Bahn (Distributed Computing and Operating Systems Lab).

Additionally, I worked as a research intern at Samsung AI Center Toronto, where I was mentored by Iqbal Mohomed, and at NAVER AI LAB under the supervision of Young-Ho Kim. Most recently, I interned at Adobe Research in the STORIE Lab, supervised by Anh Truong and Justin Salamon .

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September 07, 2020

Introduction to IT Convergence Engineering: Thanos's Finger Snap (Spring, 2019)

Introduction to IT Convergence Engineering

Prof, Donsup Jo

In the movie, Thanos collects six Infinity Stones, puts them on gloves, flicks his fingers, and turns half of the creature into dust.

Here, I implemented the Infinity Stone with 5 LEDs, implemented by pressing a button instead of a finger snap, and expressed a scene that becomes dust with a finger snap as a buzzer sounding.

In addition, the lines that Thanos makes right before the finger snap are as follows. “You should, You should have gone for the head” This means that Thanos should have aimed at his head first at Thor, who put a hammer in his chest.

I made "You should have gone for the head" output to the monitor using Arduino's serial communication.

When the Arduino button is pressed, it is configured to operate.

The peaceful appearance of the entire Earth in Finger Snap was implemented through an example-demos-graphics-planet,

After the finger snap, that is, when the button is pressed, a blank screen is displayed (half of the world disappears).

Also, "You should, You should have gone for the head" is output to the console of processing.