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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"MIT Media Lab."”.
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CharmMe : applying machine learning to facilitate meaningful interactions at the MIT Media Lab
… matched, such as their publications or social media accounts. Additionally, the application takes data provided by users Checking-in to conference talks or Liking projects, which are actions made popular by the social networking sites Facebook and Foursquare. To facilitate the actual …
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Extending ScratchR : challenges of deploying a scalable user generated content platform for young people
… by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. ScratchR lets users share projects developed with the Scratch programming language. This thesis involves technical improvements made to ScratchR from August 2007 to August 2008. Improvements include the addition of a comment reply …
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Symbiotic Shift: Transcultural Explorations of Community-Guided CRISPR Biotechnology Development
… focuses on sharing the experience of working collaboratively across the Sculpting Evolution Group at the MIT Media Lab and Indigenous researchers, elders, and community members in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to spearhead community-guided CRISPR biotechnology development— a new way of creating the next …
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Integrated vision framework for a robotics research and development platform
… developed by the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. Featuring representations for images and camera sensors, this system provides a structure that is used to build robot vision applications. One application shows how to merge the representations of two different cameras in order to …
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Spacing innovation and learning in design organizations
… of design organizations such as IDEO, the MIT Media Lab and Design Continuum? This thesis explores the relationship between four types of spaces, namely, 1) urban, 2) building 3) workplace and 4) users and innovation and creative practices of these three case studies. Drawing mainly on …
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Mobile companion to the glass infrastructure
… location-based messaging system for the MIT Media Lab. Users compose messages that are delivered as recipients are detected at specified locations in the Lab. MessageMe builds on the Media Lab Glass Infrastructure, utilizing the RFID readers at each kiosk to determine users' locations. GI …
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Building a semi-autonomous sociable robot platform for robust interpersonal telecommunication
… kind of robotic companion being developed at the MIT Media Lab for health care, education, entertainment and social communication applications. This work focuses on the social communication application as it pertains to using a semi-autonomous robotic avatar in a remote environment. The software …
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Parameter search in an agent-based model of pedestrian movement in retail environments
… in the Cognitive Machine Group at the MIT Media Lab. The approach pursued in this thesis is agent-based modeling, with an ultimate goal to use generative behaviors in agents to study effects of architectural and managerial decisions on retail environments. In this thesis, I designed and …
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An introduction to some recent developments in gestural musical instruments
… patents as well as current work occurring at the MIT Media Lab. Finally, I discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of gestural instruments as compared to traditional instruments.
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Design of a spring-integrated crutch for ascending stairs
… and requires upper body strength. In 2011, MIT Media Lab researcher Madalyn Berns demonstrated that incorporating into the crutch an elastic element that spans the elbow joint could reduce the metabolic cost of crutching up stairs. The elastic element stores energy when compressed by the …
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Affordable avatar control system for personal robots
… developed by the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab. It has its specific purpose in healthcare, elderly care, education, and family communication. It is important that a user can successfully convey the meaningful context in a dialogue via the robot's puppeteering interface. I …
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The use of antagonist muscle as a "catch" in explosive movement/
… motion. Using a novel apparatus developed in the MIT media lab, a model of this system was simulated using live muscle tissue. It was shown that for loads below 30% of the maximum force of the muscle, using an antagonist muscle as a catch could produce beneficial power amplifications. These …
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Investigation of manufacturing techniques and prototyping of the Smartcities Citycar frame
… a folding electric vehicle being designed at the MIT Media Lab, as well as a half-scale prototype for testing driving and folding systems. Through looking at two case studies for similarly sized automobiles as well as analyzing the compatibility of metal casting, stamping, composite layup, and …
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Just build it! : a fully functional concept vehicle using robotic wheels
… the research in the Smart Cities Group at the MIT Media Lab I propose to implement a novel mechanical and electric robotic wheel technology and the associated control and drive software in a fully functional concept vehicle. I will make use of a modular design for wheel robots which I developed …
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HeartBit : mindful control of heart rate using haptic biofeedback
… self-awareness. In partnership between the MIT Media Lab and the Ellen Langer Mindfulness Lab at Harvard, HeartBit has been tested under two scenarios. First, showing how people can learn to voluntarily control their heart rate using mindfulness, assisted by portable technology to accelerate …
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Latent Lab: Exploration Beyond Search and Synthesis
… around the iterative development of “Latent Lab,” an interactive tool for exploring relationships among MIT Media Lab research projects. The work offers insights into AI systems as co-inventors by addressing the challenges of organizing, searching, and synthesizing content. Our method for …
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Community data portraiture : perceiving events, people, & ideas within a research community
… and methods were developed specifically for the MIT Media Lab community, general principles can then be abstracted from this initial practical application.
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Discovering the hidden users of Scratch
… of these systems are deployed in areas with limited internet connectivity which hampers the ability to collect telemetry data. In this thesis, we describe a telemetry data collection system built for the Scratch programming language to collect usage data regarding how Scratch is being used in …
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Visualizing models driven by real-time, sensor-based data : a new way to experience the inner workings of ecosystems
… processes. EcoFlux builds on the existing MIT Media Lab project DoppelMarsh, which is a virtual landscape that changes in response to realtime environmental conditions captured by the distributed sensor network at the Tidmarsh wetland site. EcoFlux is the first of its kind to visualize …
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Behavioral Design for Emotional Intelligence: Leveraging Affective Computing in Medical Education for Improved Care for Substance Use Disorders
… in under treatment, poor communication, and labeling. Stigma can also be expressed through one's affective states, where facial expressions may unintentionally convey negative emotions or judgments. To address this issue, this thesis aims to introduce medical trainees to Medship, an affective …
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