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Showing 1 to 20 of 921 for “"Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences."”.
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Using contour as a mid-level representation of melody
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Representing musical knowledge
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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The structural determinants of media contagion
Informal exchanges between friends, family and acquaintances play a crucial role in the dissemination of news and opinion. These casual interactions are embedded in a network of communication that spans our society, allowing information to spread from any one person to another via some set of …
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InReach : navigating and manipulating 3D models using natural body gestures in a remote collaboration setup
Remote collaboration systems present audio and video representations of separate meeting spaces, but they do not support pointing towards and manipulating content in a shared digital space. InReach explores how remote collaborators can "reach into" a shared digital workspace where they can …
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Acoustic chase : designing an interactive audio environment to stimulate human body movement
… created that explores how humans react to commands imposed by a machine generating its acoustic stimuli on the basis of tracked body movement. In this environment, different states of human and machine action are understood as a balance of power that moves back and forth between the apparatus …
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Tangible interfaces for interactive point-of-view narratives
This thesis presents three storytelling systems for interactive point-of- view narratives using tangible interface technology. The focus is the design and development of computational story models and interfaces that enable users to experience new forms of interaction with stories in the digital …
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Collaborative reputation mechanisms for online communities
… unrelated to each other, they may have never met and have no information on each other's reputation. This kind of information is vital in Electronic Commerce interactions, where the potential counterpart's reputation can be a significant factor in the negotiation strategy. I will investigate two …
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Mechanical constraints as common ground between people and computers
This thesis presents a new type of human-computer interface based on mechanical constraints that combines some of the tactile feedback and affordances of mechanical systems with the abstract computational power of modern computers. The interface is based on a tabletop interaction surface that can …
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Embodying virtual space to enhance the understanding of information
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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A platform for high-speed biomechanical analysis using wearable wireless sensors
Humanity's desire to capture and understand motion started in 1878 and has continually evolved. Today, the best-of- breed technology for capturing motion are marker based optical systems that leverage high speed cameras. While these systems are excellent at providing positional information, they …
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StoryMat : a computer-mediated space for children's fantasy play and collaborative storytelling
Fantasy play serves an important role in preschool children's development. Making up characters and telling stories around them are activities through which children make sense of and test out their hypotheses about the world. While computers are increasingly present in the world of young children, …
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Algorithmic craft : the synthesis of computational design, digital fabrication, and hand craft
Programing is a singular creative tool with the potential to support personal expression. Unfortunately, many people who are new to programing view it as a highly specialized, difficult and inaccessible skill that is only relevant for career paths in science, engineering, or business fields. …
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The Trojan horse as a Trojan horse
This thesis proposes a framework to model intervention in education systems using technology: the Learning Atmosphere. The motivation is to show that innovative learning with expressive technologies can happen even in economically disadvantaged regions, such as public education systems in Brazil, …
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Learning material for constructing environmental understanding
… that people have understood the causes, effects and impact of environmental issues. Understanding and critically thinking about environmental problems is crucial and is not always addressed within the environmental education process. This deficiency is mainly due to the lack of adequate learning …
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Toward optogenetic control of neural synchrony : experimental results from the hippocampal slice model of gamma oscillations and computational modeling
Ever since Hans Berger recorded the first human EEGs in humans and observed large, rhythmic 8 Hz field oscillations, neuroscientists have been intrigued by the pervasive presence of synchronized, regular patterns of the activity in the brain. A number of frequency bands, spanning from 0.1 to …
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Participatory epidemiology : harnessing the HealthMap platform for community-based disease outbreak monitoring
Due to increasing global trade and travel along with a range of environmental factors, emerging infectious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), drug-resistant tuberculosis, and 2009 HiNi continue to have significant impact on morbidity, mortality, and commerce worldwide. Early …
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Perceptual correspondences of abstract animation and synthetic sound
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 1988.
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Melody retrieval on the Web
The emergence of digital music on the Internet requires new information retrieval methods adapted to specific characteristics and needs. While music retrieval based on the text information, such as title, composers, or subject classification, has been implemented in many existing systems, retrieval …
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Kaleido : individualistic visual interfaces for software development environments
Programming, especially programming in the context of art and design, is a process of reconciling and shifting between individual creative thought and rigid conceptual models of code. Despite advances of programming support tools, the discrepancy between the contextual specificity of the author's …
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Telling tales : a new way to encourage written literacy through oral language
This thesis presents a new approach and a new interface to let children practice written literacy skills using oral language. Specifically, I argue that language composition is learned by practicing a set of cognitive skills that are independent of the medium in which the linguistic meaning is …
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