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  • Exploiting quaternions to support expressive interactive character motion 
    Johnson, Michael Patrick, 1971- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    A real-time motion engine for interactive synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from ...
  • Explorations in musical tinkering 
    Rosenbaum, Eric (Eric Ross) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
    This thesis introduces the idea of "musical tinkering," exploring how to engage people in playfully creating and experimenting with their own musical instruments and compositions. I discuss the design and study of two new ...
  • Expressive mathematics : learning by design 
    Shaffer, David Williamson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
  • Extending expectation propagation for graphical models 
    Qi, Yuan, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    Graphical models have been widely used in many applications, ranging from human behavior recognition to wireless signal detection. However, efficient inference and learning techniques for graphical models are needed to ...
  • Externalizing and interpreting autonomic arousal in people diagnosed with autism 
    Lee, Jackie Chia-Hsun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This research explores how externalization of physiological states helps to provide an awareness of hidden stressors through a home-based study, a lab-based study, and a school-based study in order to facilitate social ...
  • Family creative learning : designing structures to engage kids and parents as computational creators 
    Roque, Ricarose Vallarta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
    The ability to create, design, and express oneself with technology is an important fluency for full participation in today's digitally mediated society. Social support can play a major role in engaging and deepening what ...
  • Folk computing : designing technology to support face-to-face community building 
    Borovoy, Richard Daniel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Creating common ground in a community of people who do not all know each other is a chicken-and-egg problem: members do not share enough common ground to support the kinds of conversations that help build it. "Folk Computing" ...
  • Footprints : interaction history for digital objects 
    Wexelblat, Alan Daniel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
  • A framework for designing constructionist approaches to community-centered messaging 
    Chesnais, Pascal Roger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
    Social constructionism is a term used to describe systems where individuals take an active role in development that can enhance their community's social setting. This thesis asks, "What is the role of communication ...
  • Generating and interpreting referring expressions in context 
    Smith, Dustin Arthur (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Referring expressions with vague and ambiguous modifiers, such as "a quick visit" and "the big meeting," are difficult for computers to interpret because their meanings are defined in part by context. For the hearer to ...
  • Giving the head a hand : constructing a microworld to build relationships with ideas in balance control 
    Sipitakiat, Arnan, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    The major promise of computational technology for learning is in making discovery and acquisition of knowledge accessible to a wider range of people. The protean expressive and constructive nature of computational technology ...
  • Grasping information and collaborating through shape displays 
    Leithinger, Daniel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
    The vision to interact with computers through our whole body - to not only visually perceive information, but to engage with it through multiple senses has inspired human computer interaction (HCI) research for decades. ...
  • Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants 
    Mavridis, Nikolaos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    A Situated Conversational Assistant (SCA) is a system with sensing, acting and speech synthesis/recognition abilities, which engages in physically situated natural language conversation with human partners and assists them ...
  • Ground truth in ultra-dense neural recording 
    Allen, Brian D. (Brian Douglas) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    While biologists routinely record neural activity with multi-electrodes, spike sorting-- the process of attributing spikes to particular neurons-- remains a challenge that typically requires human curation. Due to technical ...
  • Growing machines 
    Griffith, Saul Thomas, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    construction is developed in three dimensions. It is similarly shown that right-angled tetrahedrons, when folded from an edge-connected string, can generate any three dimensional structure where the primitive pixel (or ...
  • Haptic holography : an early computational plastic 
    Plesniak, Wendy J. (Wendy Jean) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
    This dissertation introduces haptic holography, a combination of computational modeling and multimodal spatial display, as an early computationalplastic In this work, we combine various holographic displays with a force ...
  • Holographic television : measuring visual performance with holographic and other 3D television technologies 
    Barabas, James (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    We are surrounded by visual reproductions: computer screens, photographs, televisions, and countless other technologies allow us to perceive objects and scenes that are not physically in-front of us. All existing technologies ...
  • Holovideo on a stick : integrated optics for holographic video displays 
    Smalley, Daniel E (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    In this dissertation I describe the development of a new integrated-optics platform for holographic video consisting of arrays guided-wave acousto-optic devices. This platform serves as the foundation for a new family of ...
  • How predictable : modeling rates of change in individuals and populations 
    Krumme, Katherine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This thesis develops methodologies to measure rates of change in individual human behavior, and to capture statistical regularities in change at the population level, in three pieces: i) a model of individual rate of change ...
  • Hybrid percussion : extending physical instruments using sampled acoustics 
    Aimi, Roberto Mario, 1973- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    This thesis presents a system architecture for creating hybrid digital-acoustic percussion instruments by combining extensions of existing signal processing techniques with specially-designed semi-acoustic physical ...
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