Charlie DeTar Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionNon-hierarchical, participatory, consensus-based decision making has seen an explosion in popular…
Charles DeTar
Former Research Assistant
Charlie Bates
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Charlie DeTar named a Media Ideation Fellow
Thesis Defenses
Dawei Shen Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionInformation markets benefit the communities they serve by facilitating electronic distributed exc…
Thesis Defense: Fulu Li
LocationWiesner Room DescriptionIn this thesis we lay the foundations for a distributed, community-based computing environment to tap the r…
Arthur Petron Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos E15-070 DescriptionThe prosthetic socket, the mechanical interface between an amputated residuum and an exter…
David Sengeh Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionFor people living with limb amputation, the prosthetic socket – the interface between the residuu…
Yadid Ayzenberg Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionState of the art technology has made it possible to monitor various physiological signals for pro…
Philipp Robbel Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMany problems of economic and societal interest in today's world involve tasks that are inherentl…
Akane Sano Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis thesis designs and carries out a series of studies, which collect multi-modal data from wear…
Roy Shilkrot Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWearable computers are becoming a widespread reality. Driven by a human quest for sensorial ultra…
Daniel Leithinger Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionShape displays render digital content as dynamic physical shapes. They enable multiple users to t…
Wei Pan Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis dissertation’s main contribution is a new methodology, Reality Hedging, to use big-data driv…
Sigurour Orn Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater E15-070 DescriptionAs robots move out of factory floors and into human environments, out from safe ba…
James Barabas Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionWe are surrounded by visual reproductions: computer screens, photographs, televisions, and countl…
Adam Whiton Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionSartorial Robotics is a method of merging fashion theory and robotics through the design and deve…
Dustin Smith Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionReferring expressions with vague and ambiguous modifiers, such as “a quick visit” and “the big me…
Peter Torpey Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionMedia Scores provide a theoretical and technical means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the …
Ian Eslick Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-244 DescriptionNearly one quarter of US adults read patient-generated health information found on blogs, forums,…
Todd Farrell Thesis Defense
Location6th Floor E14 DescriptionIn this thesis Todd Farrell will present a novel algorithm that studies the role of extrinsic versus intri…
Michael Lapinski Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room) DescriptionHumanity's desire to capture and understand motion started in 1878 an…
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 (6th Floor) DescriptionNavigating both our personal and professional life has evolved into a knowledge-inten…
Karen Brennan Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor DescriptionWe live in a computational culture—a culture in which we are surrounded by comput…
Marcelo Coelho Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Nagashima Conference Room, E14-525 DescriptionAt the boundary between people, objects, and spaces, we encounter a br…
Ryan Chin Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab (E14-633) DescriptionThis thesis examines the environmental benefits created by the manufacture, distribution, and co…
Philip DeCamp Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis dissertation will examine what a first person viewpoint means in the context of data visuali…
Drew Harry Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWe have long assumed that being face-to-face is the best environment for social interaction. But …
Jaewoo Chung Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPeople can easily become mindless in their decision-making and become disengaged from their surro…
Bo Morgan Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA system built on a layered reflective cognitive architecture presents many novel and difficult s…
Angela Chang Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab (E14-633) DescriptionThis thesis presents TinkRBooks, interactive storybooks that support parent-child storytelling. …
Aaron Zinman Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionEvery day, millions of people encounter strangers online. We read their medical advice, buy their…
Noah Vawter Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis dissertation describes the research, development and reasoning behind a family of musical in…
Peter Schmitt Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe digital revolution has fundamentally changed our lives by giving us new ways to express ourse…
Taemie Kim Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDistributed collaboration is often more challenging than co-located collaboration, as many of the…
Cati Vaucelle Thesis Defense
LocationE14-633 DescriptionTangible Media as an area has not explored how the tangible handle is more than a marker or place-holder for dig…
Stefanie Tellex Thesis Defense
LocationE14-525 DescriptionMaking systems that understand language has long been a dream of artificial intelligence. This thesis develops a…
Adam Boulanger Thesis Defense
LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe nature of healthcare is changing. It has to, given oft-cited population growth, staggering costs, and damagi…
Amon Millner Thesis Defense
LocationE14-525 DescriptionMillner's research efforts focus primarily on two areas: (1) developing engaging technological tools that promot…
Aithne Pao Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-341 DescriptionRecent advances in display technologies have moved computing onto physical surfaces, such as thro…
Santiago Alfaro Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-341 DescriptionDigital Synesthesia is the concept of using sensors and mobile technology to create a user experi…
Elly Jessop Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPerforming artists have frequently used technology to sense and extend the body’s natural express…
Elliott Hedman Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOver the course of six years, Elliott Hedman brought ambulatory psychophysiology into a variety o…
Ankur Mani Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15, Bartos Theater DescriptionHow different are the characteristics of societies that are constrained to local inte…
Amit Zoran Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionHybrid reAssemblage is a design gestalt that lies at the cross-section of digital design practice…
Anthony Zorzos Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionTo deliver light to the brain for neuroscientific and neuroengineering applications like o…
Sajid Sadi Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionSince the time of the first philosophers, logic and observed human behavior have stood somewhat i…
Kenny Cheung Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-648 (Silverman Skyline Room) DescriptionThis work seeks to demonstrate the applicability of a digital material a…
Nadav Aharony Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionA key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional …
Rony Kubat Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe proliferation of inexpensive video recording hardware and enormous storage capacity has enabl…
Ben Waber Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre (E15, Lower Level) DescriptionThe goal of this thesis is to show that social support created through …
Mat Laibowitz Thesis Defense
LocationE14-633 DescriptionIn today's digital era, elements of anyone's life can be captured, by themselves or others, and be instantly bro…
Micah Eckhardt Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater E15-070 DescriptionCommunication impairments are a core characteristic of autism, affecting social-em…
Jay Silver Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionLens"By the means of Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our vi…
Seth Hunter Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionConventional video mediated communication technologies provide a live window between remote space…
Coco Krumme Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, Nagashima Conference Room (E14-525) DescriptionCoco Krumme develops methodologies to measure rates of …
Giovanni Talei Franzesi Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos E15-070 DescriptionNeuronal action potentials (‘spikes’) are thought to be the fundamental units of informati…
Benjamin Mako Hill Thesis Defense
LocationE14-525, MIT Media Lab DescriptionAlthough some examples of Internet-based collaborative "peer production"— like Wikipedia and Linu…
Andres Monroy-Hernandez Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis work describes a framework for the design and study an online community of amateur creators.…
Wu-Hsi Li Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn this dissertation research, we explore ways of using audio on AR applications, as it is especi…
Kwan Hong Lee Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIt is an open question how our day-to-day decisions will be affected by the always-on connection …
Ming-Zher Poh Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionEpilepsy is a neurological disorder that predisposes individuals to have recurrent, unprovoked se…
Hyung-il Ahn Thesis Defense
LocationE14-525 DescriptionSubjective and affective elements are well-known to influence human decision making. This dissertation presents …
Shaundra Bryant Daily Thesis Defense
LocationE14-525 DescriptionEmpathy is a core ingredient to caring and successful relationships. The ability to perceive and respond to anot…
Daniel E. Smalley Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionIn this dissertation Daniel Smalley describes the development of a new integrated-optics platform…
Nan-Wei Gong Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-244 DescriptionWe live in a world where everyday artifacts are designed and augmented as media interfaces. Techn…
William Lark, Jr. Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab (E14-648), Silverman Skyline room DescriptionGrowing populations, an increasing middle-class, and rapid urbanization …
Daniel Olguín Olguín Thesis Defense
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWe propose a sensor-based organizational design and engineering approach that combines behavioral…