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  • 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 ...
  • Thick psychophysiology for empathic design 
    Hedman, Elliott B. (Elliot Bruce) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    Over the course of six years, I brought ambulatory psychophysiology into a variety of industries as a means of conducting design research. I looked at the stress of children in occupational therapy, the frustration of ...
  • The body parametric : abstraction of vocal and physical expression in performance 
    Nattinger, Elena Jessop (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    Performing artists have frequently used technology to sense and extend the body's natural expressivity via live control of multimedia. However, the sophistication, emotional content, and variety of expression possible ...
  • Loco-Radio : designing high-density augmented reality audio browsers 
    Li, Wu-Hsi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    In this dissertation research, we explore ways of using audio on AR applications, as it is especially suitable for mobile users when their eyes and hands are not necessarily available and they have limited attention capacity. ...
  • Bilateral exchanges in social networks and the design of public institutions 
    Mani, Ankur (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    In this thesis, I study bilateral exchanges in social networks. I integrate the market based approach in economics and network based approach in sociology. I also give a joint model of externalities and peer pressure in ...
  • Mind-theoretic planning for social robots 
    Ađalgeirsson, Sigurđur Örn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    As robots move out of factory floors and into human environments, out from safe barricaded workstations to operating in close proximity with people, they will increasingly be expected to understand and coordinate with basic ...
  • WaaZam! : supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments 
    Hunter, Seth E (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    This thesis presents the design, implementation and evaluation of WaaZam, a telepresence system for families that supports social engagement through creative play in a unified video space. The goal of the project is to ...
  • Computational visual reality 
    Hirsch, Matthew Waggener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    It is not so far-fetched to envision a future student working through a difficult physics problem by using their hands to manipulate a 3D visualization that floats above the desk. A doctor preparing for heart surgery will ...
  • Lens x block : World as construction kit 
    Silver, Jay (Jay Saul) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    Purpose and meaning of the physical world can be re-assigned and re-made by individuals as they go rather than being pre-fixed by people who came before them. But this mindset is more rare than it should be if we want an ...
  • Crowdsourcing affective responses for predicting media effectiveness 
    McDuff, Daniel Jonathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    Emotion is key to the effectiveness of media, whether it be in influencing memory, likability or persuasion. Stories and narratives, even if fictional, have the ability to induce a genuine emotional response. However, the ...
  • Compact and low-power computational 3D sensors for gestural input 
    Colaç̦o, Andrea B. (Andrea Brazilin Immaculate Danielle) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    Mobile devices have evolved into powerful computing platforms. As computing capabilities grow and size shrinks, the most pronounced limitation with mobile devices is display size. With the adoption of touch as the de facto ...
  • Collective artificial intelligence : simulated role-playing from crowdsourced data 
    Orkin, Jeffrey David (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Collective Artificial Intelligence (CAl) simulates human intelligence from data contributed by many humans, mined for inter-related patterns. This thesis applies CAI to social role-playing, introducing an end-to-end process ...
  • Materializing interaction 
    Coelho, Marcelo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    At the boundary between people, objects and spaces, we encounter a broad range of surfaces. Their properties perform functional roles such as permeability, comfort or illumination, while conveying information such as an ...
  • The birth of a word 
    Roy, Brandon C. (Brandon Cain) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    A hallmark of a child's first two years of life is their entry into language, from first productive word use around 12 months of age to the emergence of combinatorial speech in their second year. What is the nature of early ...
  • Computers to help with conversations : affective framework to enhance human nonverbal skills 
    Hoque, Mohammed Ehsan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Nonverbal behavior plays an integral part in a majority of social interaction scenarios. Being able to adjust nonverbal behavior and influence other's responses are considered valuable social skills. A deficiency in nonverbal ...
  • Best of both worlds : issues of structure and agency in computational creation, in and out of school 
    Brennan, Karen A. (Karen Ann) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    We live in a computational culture - a culture in which we are surrounded by computational systems and interfaces, from social networks to banking infrastructure, to entertainment platforms, to transportation systems. This ...
  • Data visualization in the first person 
    DeCamp, Philip (Philip James) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This dissertation will examine what a first person viewpoint means in the context of data visualization and how it can be used for navigating and presenting large datasets. Recent years have seen rapid growth in Big Data ...
  • Design and applications of inkjet-printed flexible sensate surfaces 
    Gong, Nan-Wei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    We live in a world where everyday artifacts begin to be designed and augmented as media interfaces. New technologies based on this mission enable us to more easily sense, interact, and communicate with objects. However, ...
  • 3-D optical waveguide arrays for in-vivo optogenetics : development and application 
    Zorzos, Anthony Nicholas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    A key feature of neural circuits in the mammalian brain is their 3-dimensional geometric complexity. The ability to optically drive or silence sets of neurons distributed throughout complexly shaped brain circuits, in a ...
  • InterTwinkles : online tools for non-hierarchical, consensus-oriented decision making 
    DeTar, Charles (Charles Frederick) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Non-hierarchical, participatory, consensus-based decision making has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years. The traditional techniques of formal consensus, however, are limited to face-to-face meetings, which can ...
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