Day One | ICA BostonOpening Remarks | Joi ItoIntroduction | Paola Antonelli, Neri Oxman, and Kevin SlavinLecture | Anthony Dunne and Fiona …
The New MetabolismDavid Benjamin, George Church, Neri Oxman, Hashim Sarkis, and Nicola Twilley (moderator)Architects and designers have for…
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Live Objects enrich users' experiences of their immediate environment.
A Live Object is a small device that can stream media content wirelessly to nearby mobile devices without an Internet connection. Live Obje…
Consider a small object sitting on a desk in your living room. The object is illuminated by light sources from all directions—this includes…
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Heun, V. "Smarter Objects: Programming Physical Objects with AR Technology"
System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
Kushagra Tiwary, Akshat Dave, Nikhil Behari, Tzofi Klinghoffer, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ramesh Raskar. "ORCa: Glossy Objects as Radiance-Field Cameras." Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile.
A better understanding of the biomechanics of human tissue allows for better attachment of load-bearing objects to people. Think of shoes, …
The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehicl…
Codeable Objects is a library for processing that allows people to design and build objects using geometry and programming. Geometric compu…
Valentin Heun, Shunichi Kasahara, Pattie Maes
Designed with attention to the creation and expression of an historical perspective, Storied Objects present us with an object-centric view…
A web technology-based update of Smarter Objects and the reality editor project.
Live Objects are wireless devices that enrich a user’s experience of the surrounding environment. Live Objects are associated with real obj…
Kestner, J. "Social Networks for Lonely Objects"
We are currently in an AI revolution. Big AI models are writing entire books, and generating art sold worth millions. Soon content made fro…
The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects that lie outside the camera’s field of view. We use two-bounce light to pe…
Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).
Valentin Heun, James Hobin, Pattie Maes
Tristan Swedish, Connor Henley, Ramesh Raskar; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 2593-2602
Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…
K. Chung Ishii, H.,
Gatenby, D. "Galatea: Personalized Interaction with Augmented Objects"
Moriba Jah is the director for Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies (CAST), a group within the ICES at UT Austin.
The Reality Editor system supports editing the behavior and interfaces of so-called "smart objects": objects or devices that have an embedd…
Lee, H. "Storied Objects: Design Thinking with Time"
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Chris Schmandt
An assortment of everyday objects is given the ability to understand multitouch gestures of the sort used in mobile-device user interfaces,…
Bernt Schiele, Alex Pentland
Feldman, A. "ReachMedia - On the Move Interaction with Everyday Objects"
Carr, D. "Print Preview for the Fabrication of Physical Objects"
Known as “WraPr,” the system presents a novel fabrication method for creating new or augmenting existing 3D objects with soft materials.
Using augmented reality, the X-AR system developed by the Signal Kinetics research group can guide users to find hidden objects.
Follmer, S. "Remixing Physical Objects through Tangible Tools"
System uses RFID tags to home in on targets; could benefit robotic manufacturing, collaborative drones, and other applications.
An intelligent robot must build an understanding of its environment with minimal human mediation. We investigate the characterization of ob…
Rich, T. "Encoding Data into Physical Objects with Digitally Fabricated Textures." Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013.
R. Pandharkar, A. Velten, A. Bardagjy, E. Lawson, M. Bawendi and R. Raskar, "Estimating motion and size of moving non-line-of-sight objects in cluttered environments," CVPR 2011, Providence, RI, 2011, pp. 265-272, doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2011.5995465.
Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
The technique, known as “implosion fabrication,” can be used to create nearly any shape imaginable.
Chung, K. "OnObject: Programming Physical Objects for Gestural Interaction"