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Media tables : an extensible method for developing multi-user media interaction platforms for shared spaces
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
As digital entertainment applications evolve, there is a need for new kinds of platforms that can support sociable media interactions for everyday consumers. This thesis demonstrates an extensible method and sensing framework ...
Creating music by listening
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Machines have the power and potential to make expressive music on their own. This thesis aims to computationally model the process of creating music using experience from listening to examples. Our unbiased signal-based ...
Reusing a robot's behavioral mechanisms to model and manipulate human mental states
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
In a task domain characterized by physical actions and where information has value, competing teams gain advantage by spying on and deceiving an opposing team while cooperating teammates can help the team by secretly ...
Thick psychophysiology for empathic design
(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 ...
Compact and low-power computational 3D sensors for gestural input
(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 ...
A physically based human figure model with a complex floot and low level behavior control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
Circuits to control--learning engineering by designing LEGO robots
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
Sculpting behavior : a tangible language for hands-on play and learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
For over a century, educators and constructivist theorists have argued that children learn by actively forming and testing -- constructing -- theories about how the world works. Recent efforts in the design of "tangible ...
Using machine learning for real-time activity recognition and estimation of energy expenditure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Obesity is now considered a global epidemic and is predicted to become the number one preventive health threat in the industrialized world. Presently, over 60% of the U.S. adult population is overweight and 30% is obese. ...
Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants
(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 ...