Former Research Assistant
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagn…
Research Assistant
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
Former Research Assistant
Former Alumnus, Things That Think
Former Alumnus, Music & Cognition
Visiting Professor
Institute Professor, MIT; Advisory Council Member
Research Assistant
Former Research Assistant
Former Visiting Scientist
Research Assistant
Former Research Assistant
Assistant Director, Network Computing Systems
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionInformation markets benefit the communities they serve by facilitating electronic distributed exc…
LocationWiesner Room DescriptionIn this thesis we lay the foundations for a distributed, community-based computing environment to tap the r…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos E15-070 DescriptionThe prosthetic socket, the mechanical interface between an amputated residuum and an exter…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionFor people living with limb amputation, the prosthetic socket – the interface between the residuu…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionState of the art technology has made it possible to monitor various physiological signals for pro…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMany problems of economic and societal interest in today's world involve tasks that are inherentl…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis thesis designs and carries out a series of studies, which collect multi-modal data from wear…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWearable computers are becoming a widespread reality. Driven by a human quest for sensorial ultra…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionShape displays render digital content as dynamic physical shapes. They enable multiple users to t…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis dissertation’s main contribution is a new methodology, Reality Hedging, to use big-data driv…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater E15-070 DescriptionAs robots move out of factory floors and into human environments, out from safe ba…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionWe are surrounded by visual reproductions: computer screens, photographs, televisions, and countl…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionSartorial Robotics is a method of merging fashion theory and robotics through the design and deve…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionReferring expressions with vague and ambiguous modifiers, such as “a quick visit” and “the big me…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionMedia Scores provide a theoretical and technical means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-244 DescriptionNearly one quarter of US adults read patient-generated health information found on blogs, forums,…
Location6th Floor E14 DescriptionIn this thesis Todd Farrell will present a novel algorithm that studies the role of extrinsic versus intri…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room) DescriptionHumanity's desire to capture and understand motion started in 1878 an…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 (6th Floor) DescriptionNavigating both our personal and professional life has evolved into a knowledge-inten…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor DescriptionWe live in a computational culture—a culture in which we are surrounded by comput…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Nagashima Conference Room, E14-525 DescriptionAt the boundary between people, objects, and spaces, we encounter a br…
LocationMIT Media Lab (E14-633) DescriptionThis thesis examines the environmental benefits created by the manufacture, distribution, and co…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis dissertation will examine what a first person viewpoint means in the context of data visuali…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWe have long assumed that being face-to-face is the best environment for social interaction. But …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPeople can easily become mindless in their decision-making and become disengaged from their surro…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA system built on a layered reflective cognitive architecture presents many novel and difficult s…
LocationMIT Media Lab (E14-633) DescriptionThis thesis presents TinkRBooks, interactive storybooks that support parent-child storytelling. …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionEvery day, millions of people encounter strangers online. We read their medical advice, buy their…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis dissertation describes the research, development and reasoning behind a family of musical in…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe digital revolution has fundamentally changed our lives by giving us new ways to express ourse…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDistributed collaboration is often more challenging than co-located collaboration, as many of the…
LocationE14-633 DescriptionTangible Media as an area has not explored how the tangible handle is more than a marker or place-holder for dig…
LocationE14-525 DescriptionMaking systems that understand language has long been a dream of artificial intelligence. This thesis develops a…
LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe nature of healthcare is changing. It has to, given oft-cited population growth, staggering costs, and damagi…
LocationE14-525 DescriptionMillner's research efforts focus primarily on two areas: (1) developing engaging technological tools that promot…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-341 DescriptionRecent advances in display technologies have moved computing onto physical surfaces, such as thro…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-341 DescriptionDigital Synesthesia is the concept of using sensors and mobile technology to create a user experi…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPerforming artists have frequently used technology to sense and extend the body’s natural express…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOver the course of six years, Elliott Hedman brought ambulatory psychophysiology into a variety o…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionNon-hierarchical, participatory, consensus-based decision making has seen an explosion in popular…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15, Bartos Theater DescriptionHow different are the characteristics of societies that are constrained to local inte…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionHybrid reAssemblage is a design gestalt that lies at the cross-section of digital design practice…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionTo deliver light to the brain for neuroscientific and neuroengineering applications like o…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionSince the time of the first philosophers, logic and observed human behavior have stood somewhat i…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-648 (Silverman Skyline Room) DescriptionThis work seeks to demonstrate the applicability of a digital material a…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionA key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe proliferation of inexpensive video recording hardware and enormous storage capacity has enabl…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre (E15, Lower Level) DescriptionThe goal of this thesis is to show that social support created through …