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People objects : 3-D modeling of heads in real-time
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Enabling, modeling and interconnecting active community publishers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Over the past four years the research described in this thesis has enabled community groups to become collaborative content producers on the Internet. These groups use computer-mediated networking to publish their stories ...
The linguistic exploration of children : playing with language through computer programming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Children's intuitions about the grammar of their language are resources which children can use to leverage understanding of formal grammatical concepts. In this thesis, I demonstrate how the Logo programming environment ...
Personal area networks (PAN) : near-field intra-body communication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
Visual recognition of American sign language using hidden Markov models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
Moodtrack : practical methods for assembling emotion-driven music
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis presents new methods designed for the deconstruction and reassembly of musical works based on a target emotional contour. Film soundtracks provide an ideal testing ground for organizing music around strict ...
Design of programmable matter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Programmable matter is a proposed digital material having computation, sensing, actuation, and display as continuous properties active over its whole extent. Programmable matter would have many exciting applications, like ...
Developing distributed contextualized communication services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In the past few years, the worldwide adoption of digital devices such as computers, cell phones, media players and personal organizers skyrocketed. Due to advances in networking and computation technologies, we now have ...
RattleSnake : stochastic folding for chain programmable matter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The vision of programmable matter is to create a blob of material that can transform itself into an arbitrary form. One promising approach for achieving programmable matter is to construct a chain of identical nodes that ...
Expressive re-performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Many music enthusiasts abandon music studies because they are frustrated by the amount of time and effort it takes to learn to play interesting songs. There are two major components to performance: the technical requirement ...