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From memory to inspiration: A remembrance of Aaron Swartz

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14, Sixth Floor DescriptionFrom memory to inspirationThe MIT Media Lab community invites you to join us for arememb…

Tuesday
March 12, 2013
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Noah Swartz

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Robert Swartz

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Aaron Young

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Aaron Jaeger

Former Research Assistant

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Aaron Montoya Moraga

Former Research Assistant

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Remembrance Agents

Remembrance Agents are a new class of applications that watch over a user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the current situat…

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Aaron Zinman Thesis Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionEvery day, millions of people encounter strangers online. We read their medical advice, buy their…

Thursday
July 14, 2011
Article

Here's how to use dreams for creative inspiration

Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.

Publication

Improving Memory via Automated Targeted Memory Reactivation during Sleep

Whitmore, N. W., Harris, J. C., Kovach, T. & Paller, K. A. Improving Memory via Automated Targeted Memory Reactivation during Sleep. Journal of Sleep Research 2022.06.28.497977 (2022) doi:10.1101/2022.06.28.497977.

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Aaron Falbel on Edith Ackermann

By Aaron FalbelI was a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab in the Epistemology and Learning group between 1984 and 1989. Edith and …

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Design Daydreams: Juxtaposing Digital and Physical Inspiration

Mothersill, P., & Bove, V. M. (2019, June). Design Daydreams: Juxtaposing Digital and Physical Inspiration. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (pp. 265-269).

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Prospero: A personal wearable memory coach

Chan, S. W. T., Zhang, H., & Nanayakkara, S. (2019, March). Prospero: A personal wearable memory coach. In Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference 2019 (pp. 1-5).

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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…

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Inspiration, Education, and Exploration at the Open Ocean Symposium

The New England Aquarium was proud to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab and National Geographic on the latest Open Ocean initiative event.…

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In Memory of Jack Driscoll

Do you know why a stringer is called a stringer? Jack did.

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Affective Memory Summarization

Using affective signals to summarize 16 hours of body-cam video into 15 minutes of daily recap. See the video below.

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Theme | Attention, Memory & Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.

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The laws of forgetting II: How death and exogenous events shape our collective memory

In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipedi…

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Theme | Attention, Memory & Learning (OLD)

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…

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Olfactory Wearables for Mobile Targeted Memory Reactivation

Amores Fernandez, J., Mehra, N., Rasch, B., & Maes, P. (2023). Olfactory Wearables for Mobile Targeted Memory Reactivation. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery.

Article

Get design inspiration through this Mad Libs-like game

design(human)design is a game developed by MIT Media Lab to help inspire designers with random but purposeful prompts.

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Sponsor Workshop: Map Your Musical Memory

LocationMIT Media Lab, Room TBA DescriptionRecent efforts in the Opera of the Future group have sought to establish that rich experiences, …

Thursday
October 15, 2009
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The Memory Glasses: Wearable Computing for Just-in-Time Memory Support

DeVaul, R. "The Memory Glasses: Wearable Computing for Just-in-Time Memory Support"

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Emotion and Memory

Have you ever wondered what makes an ad memorable? We have performed a comprehensive review of literature concerning advertising, memory, a…

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Modeling Auditory Memory

When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…

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Memory Music Box

We are transforming a classic music jewelry box into a digital memory box and Skype portal that enable those not familiar with technology t…

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Robert Stickgold - Sleep, Memory and Psychiatric Health

ABSTRACTSleep plays a critical role in normal memory processing and mental health, beyond its obvious role in helping us maintain attention

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On International Women's Day, 50 inspirational women in architecture and design

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ProspecFit: In Situ Evaluation of Digital Prospective Memory Training for Older Adults

Chan, S. W. T., Buddhika, T., Zhang, H., & Nanayakkara, S. (2019). Prospecfit: In situ evaluation of digital prospective memory training for older adults. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 3(3), 1-20.

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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Candia, Cristian and Jara-Figueroa, C. and Rodriguez-Sickert, Carlos and Barabási, Albert-László and Hidalgo, César A., Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, DOI:10.1038/s41562-018-0474-5

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Shape Memory Inkjet

In most �drop-on-demand� inkjet control schemes, a superheated bubble of liquid is used to propel a droplet or a piezoelectric crystal phys…

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Tod Machover @ Penn Humanities Forum: Music, Mastery, and Memory

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Wednesday
December 8, 2010
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Remnant: Handwriting Memory Card

Remnant is a greeting card that merges the affordances of physical materials with the temporal malleability of digital systems to create, e…

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Personal Long-Term Memory Aids

Vemuri, S. "Personal Long-Term Memory Aids"

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Kind and grateful: A context-sensitive smartphone app utilizing inspirational content to promote gratitude

Ghandeharioun, A., Azaria, A., Taylor, S., and Picard, R. "Kind and grateful": A context-sensitive smartphone app utilizing inspirational content to promote gratitude," Psychology of well-being, Jul 2016, Vol. 6, Issue 9.

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In memory: Carson Reynolds

Carson Reynolds | In Memory | (1976-2013)On July 4, 2013 the Media Lab lost a long-time member of our community with the passing of Car…

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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…

Publication

An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid

Sunil Vemuri, Chris Schmandt, Walter Bender, Stefanie Tellex, Brad Lassey

Article

Scratch an Inspiration for Google's App Inventor

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Inspiration from the Incomplete: The Role of Asynchronous Awareness in Digital Art Creation

Buza, K. "Inspiration from the Incomplete: The Role of Asynchronous Awareness in Digital Art Creation"

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Total VREcall: using biosignals to recognize emotional autobiographical memory in virtual reality

Gupta, K., Chan, S. W. T., Pai, Y. S., Strachan, N., Su, J., Sumich, A., ... & Billinghurst, M. (2022). Total VREcall: using biosignals to recognize emotional autobiographical memory in virtual reality. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(2), 1-21.

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Learning Personas from Dialogue with Attentive Memory Networks

Chu, Eric, Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, and Deb Roy. "Learning Personas from Dialogue with Attentive Memory Networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08717 (2018).

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Prompto: Investigating Receptivity to Prompts Based on Cognitive Load from Memory Training Conversational Agent

Chan, S. W. T., Sapkota, S., Mathews, R., Zhang, H., & Nanayakkara, S. (2020). Prompto: Investigating receptivity to prompts based on cognitive load from memory training conversational agent. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(4), 1-23.

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In memory: Marvin Minsky

Philosopher and scientist Marvin Minsky was universally regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of AI.

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Simulacrum: Situated Memory for Architectural Space

Vora, P. "Simulacrum: Situated Memory for Architectural Space"

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Burn Your Memory Away: One-time Use Video Capture and Storage Device to Encourage Memory Appreciation

P. Chi Xiao, X., Chung, K., and Chiu, C.

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Active reversal of motor memories reveals rules governing memory encoding

Boyden, E. S., Raymond, J. L. (2003) Active reversal of motor memories reveals rules governing memory encoding, Neuron 39(6):1031-42.

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Active reversal of motor memories reveals rules governing memory encoding

Boyden, E. S., Raymond, J. L. (2003) Active reversal of motor memories reveals rules governing memory encoding, Neuron 39(6):1031-42.

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A Gestural Design Tool with Kinetic Memory

Parkes, A. "A Gestural Design Tool with Kinetic Memory"

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TakeTwo: Using Google Glass for Augmented Memory

Scott W. Greenwald, Christian D.Vazquez, Pattie Maes

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AffectAura: An Intelligent System for Emotional Memory.

Daniel McDuff, Karlson A., Kapoor A, Roseway A., Mary Czerwinski