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Knotty Objects

Day One | ICA BostonOpening Remarks | Joi ItoIntroduction | Paola Antonelli, Neri Oxman, and Kevin SlavinLecture | Anthony Dunne and Fiona …

Wednesday — Thursday
July 15, 2015 —
July 16, 2015
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Knotty Objects: Session Details

The New MetabolismDavid Benjamin, George Church, Neri Oxman, Hashim Sarkis, and Nicola Twilley (moderator)Architects and designers have for…

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Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion&nbsp…

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Member collaboration: Live Objects

Live Objects enrich users' experiences of their immediate environment.

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Live Objects

A Live Object is a small device that can stream media content wirelessly to nearby mobile devices without an Internet connection. Live Obje…

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Turning Objects into Cameras

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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Maggie Orth: Beyond Smart Objects

LocationLong Lounge, MIT SA+P (Building 7, Room 429) Description

Friday
April 26, 2013
Publication

Smarter Objects: Programming Physical Objects with AR Technology

Heun, V. "Smarter Objects: Programming Physical Objects with AR Technology"

Article

A robot that senses hidden objects

System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

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ORCa: Glossy Objects as Radiance-Field Cameras

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.

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Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects

This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile.

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FitSocket: Measurement for attaching objects to people

A better understanding of the biomechanics of human tissue allows for better attachment of load-bearing objects to people. Think of shoes, …

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Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

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…

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Codeable Objects

Codeable Objects is a library for processing that allows people to design and build objects using geometry and programming. Geometric compu…

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Smarter Objects: Using AR technology to Program Physical Objects and their Interactions

Valentin Heun, Shunichi Kasahara, Pattie Maes

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Storied Objects

Designed with attention to the creation and expression of an historical perspective, Storied Objects present us with an object-centric view…

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Hybrid Objects

A web technology-based update of Smarter Objects and the reality editor project.

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#80 Live Objects

Live Objects are wireless devices that enrich a user’s experience of the surrounding environment. Live Objects are associated with real obj…

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Social Networks for Lonely Objects

Kestner, J. "Social Networks for Lonely Objects"

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Organs without Bodies. Generating physical objects with AI

We are currently in an AI revolution. Big AI models are writing entire books, and generating art sold worth millions. Soon content made fro…

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Using Shadows in Space-Time to See Hidden Objects

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…

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Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception

Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).

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Reality Editor: Programming Smarter Objects

Valentin Heun, James Hobin, Pattie Maes

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Objects As Cameras: Estimating High-Frequency Illumination From Shadows

Tristan Swedish, Connor Henley, Ramesh Raskar; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 2593-2602

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RF-Grasp: Robotic Grasping of Hidden Objects

 Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…

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Fusing Computation into Mega-Affordance Objects

K. Chung Ishii, H.,

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Galatea: Personalized Interaction with Augmented Objects

Gatenby, D. "Galatea: Personalized Interaction with Augmented Objects"

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How do we track objects orbiting the Earth and why does it matter?

Moriba Jah is the director for Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies (CAST), a group within the ICES at UT Austin.

Friday
May 3, 2019
3:00pm — 4:00pm ET
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Reality Editor: Programming Smarter Objects

The Reality Editor system supports editing the behavior and interfaces of so-called "smart objects": objects or devices that have an embedd…

Publication

Storied Objects: Design Thinking with Time

Lee, H. "Storied Objects: Design Thinking with Time"

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MugShots: Everyday Objects as Social Catalysts

Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Chris Schmandt

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ProtoTouch: Multitouch Interfaces to Everyday Objects

An assortment of everyday objects is given the ability to understand multitouch gestures of the sort used in mobile-device user interfaces,…

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Attentional Objects for Visual Context Understanding

Bernt Schiele, Alex Pentland

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ReachMedia - On the Move Interaction with Everyday Objects

Feldman, A. "ReachMedia - On the Move Interaction with Everyday Objects"

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Print Preview for the Fabrication of Physical Objects

Carr, D. "Print Preview for the Fabrication of Physical Objects"

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WraPr is a spool-based system for creating and modifying 3D objects

Known as “WraPr,” the system presents a novel fabrication method for creating new or augmenting existing 3D objects with soft materials.

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MIT researchers develop augmented reality headset to help users see hidden objects

Using augmented reality, the X-AR system developed by the Signal Kinetics research group can guide users to find hidden objects.

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Remixing Physical Objects through Tangible Tools

Follmer, S. "Remixing Physical Objects through Tangible Tools"

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Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precision

System uses RFID tags to home in on targets; could benefit robotic manufacturing, collaborative drones, and other applications.

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Representing Affordances of Objects Through Active Touch

An intelligent robot must build an understanding of its environment with minimal human mediation. We investigate the characterization of ob…

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Encoding Data into Physical Objects with Digitally Fabricated Textures

Rich, T. "Encoding Data into Physical Objects with Digitally Fabricated Textures." Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013.

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Estimating motion and size of moving non-line-of-sight objects in cluttered environments

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.

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Engineers create 3D-printed objects that sense how a user is interacting with them

Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.

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Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

The technique, known as “implosion fabrication,” can be used to create nearly any shape imaginable.

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Bringing the Digital World into Everyday Objects, and Everyday Objects into the "Internet of Things"

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OnObject: Programming Physical Objects for Gestural Interaction

Chung, K. "OnObject: Programming Physical Objects for Gestural Interaction"