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Towards a more ethical animal model in biomedical research
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Since the early twentieth century, mice have emerged as the standard mammalian model organism for biomedical research. When pain relief is provided during experimentation, it typically comes in the form of transient and ...
Auditory display for maximizing engagement and attentive capacity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Two projects in scientific data sonification are presented. 'Quantizer' is a platform that enables composers to develop artistic sonification schemes using real-time data from the ATLAS detector at CERN. Three sample audio ...
Spatial News : exploring augmented reality as a format for content production, organization, and consumption
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
News has been criticised for being fake and promoting echo-chambers. At the same time, spatial technologies have become more accessible, enabling affordable virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) systems. These ...
Wisdom of the machines : federated learning using OPAL
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Wisdom of the crowds (WOC) is an old concept that started by recording and aggregating people's estimations. It is one of the useful tools that exists today and allows many estimation applications to work correctly. Moreover, ...
AUFLIP : teaching front flips with auditory feedback towards a system for learning advanced movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
AUFLIP describes an auditory feedback system approach for learning advanced movements, informed and motivated by established methods of implicit motor learning by analogy, our physiological constraints, and the state of ...
The role of social robots in fostering human empathy : a cross-cultural exploration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Empathy is a fundamental socio-emotional human ability. It allows us to regulate our emotions in reference to other's emotions, to understand and interpret others' emotional states, and to act accordingly. Recent studies ...
Emotive Materials : towards a shared language of the meaning of materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Due to advances in design generation and digital fabrication, novice designers are able to access more and more tools to bring their visions to life. As materials begin to evolve and change shape, having a set of rules ...
Spaces that perform themselves
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Building on the understanding of music and architecture as creators of spatial experience, this thesis presents a novel way of unfolding music's spatial qualities in the physical world. Spaces That Perform Themselves exposes ...
Net-PPI : mapping the human interactome with machine learned models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The miracle of life is only possible thanks to a wide range of biochemical interactions between assortments of molecular agents. Amidst these agents, which enable all cellular activities, proteins are undoubtedly among the ...
Open source estrogen : from biomolecules to biopolitics... hormones with institutional biopower!
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and speculative design to demonstrate the entrenched ways in which estrogen is a biomolecule with institutional biopower. It is ...