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A Bicycle Electric Assist Unit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The BEAU is an electric-assist bicycle system that is completely self-contained within the rear wheel. The purpose of approaching a electric-assist bicycle in this manner is two-fold: simplifying the device and opening the ...
GeoSense : An open publishing platform for visualization, social sharing, and analysis of geospatial data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The observatory : designing data-driven decision making tools
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Creative usages of graphics to encode information date back to at least the beginnings of the industrial revolution. It is also around that same time that a gap between the wealthiest of nations and least begins to develop. ...
Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer : a machine-learning tool for classifying and analyzing discourse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) aims to understand the link "between language and the social" (Mautner and Baker, 2009), and attempts to demystify social construction and power relations (Gramsci, 1999). On the other ...
AEVITA : designing biomimetic vehicle-to-pedestrian communication protocols for autonomously operating & parking on-road electric vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
With research institutions from various private, government and academic sectors performing research into autonomous vehicle deployment strategies, the way we think about vehicles must adapt. But what happens when the ...
Creating robotic characters for long-term interaction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Researchers studying ways in which humans and robots interact in social settings have a problem: they don't have a robot to use. There is a need for a socially expressive robot that can be deployed outside of a laboratory ...
Socio-Kinetics : visualizing impressions of people behavior through motion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Online public discussion spaces such as Usenet newsgroups are rich social environments. The social dynamics within the community are not obvious upon looking at the strings of text-based content. Only a careful reading of ...
Imaging through scattering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In this thesis we demonstrate novel methods to overcome optical scattering in order to resolve information about hidden scenes, in particular for biomedical applications. Imaging through scattering media has long been a ...
Drawing the electric
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis explores the intersection of craft and electronics by way of paper and conductive ink, a domain that I'm terming papercraft electronics-a synthesis of electronics, drawing, and painting. I investigate the nature ...
Beyond visualization : designing interfaces to contextualize geospatial data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The growing sensor data collections about our environment have the potential to drastically change our perception of the fragile world we live in. To make sense of such data, we commonly use visualization techniques, ...