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Karen Brennan Thesis Defense: Best of Both Worlds; Issues of Structure and Agency in Computational Creation, In and Out of School

Drew Harry Thesis Defense: Designing Complementary Communication Systems

Nadav Aharony Thesis Defense: Social fMRI

Angela Chang Thesis Defense

Amon Millner Thesis Defense: Computer as Chalk

Mark Feldmeier Thesis Defense: Personalized Building Comfort Control

David Merrill Thesis Defense: Gestural Interaction with Embodied Media

Manu Prakash Thesis Defense: Low Reynolds Number Microfluidic Logic and Control

Michael Fleischman Thesis Defense: Grounding Language in Events

Emmanuel Munguia Tapia Thesis Defense - Using Machine Learning for Real-time Activity Recognition and Estimation of Energy Expenditure

Matt Berlin Thesis Defense - Understanding the Embodied Teacher: Sensible Learning for Sociable Robots

Hayes Raffle Thesis Defense - Sculpting Behavior: A Tangible Language for Hands-On Play and Learning

Cory Kidd Thesis Defense: Designing for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction and Application to Weight Loss

David Kong Thesis Defense: Microfluidic Gene Synthesis

Claudia Urrea Thesis Defense - One to One Connections: Building a Community Learning Culture

Guy Hoffman Thesis Defense - Ensemble: Fluency and Embodiment for Robots Acting with Humans

Elisabeth Sylvan Thesis Defense - The Sharing of Wonderful Ideas: Influence and Interaction in Online Communities of Creators

Arnan Roger Sipitakiat Thesis Defense - Giving the Head a Hand: Constructing a Microworld to Build Relationships with Ideas in Balance Control

Ernesto Arroyo Thesis Defense: Mediating Disruption in Human-Computer Interaction from Implicit Metrics of Attention

Oren Zuckerman Thesis Defense - Flowness + FlowBlocks: Uncovering the Dynamics of Everyday Life through Playful Modeling

Leo Burd Thesis Defense: Technological Initiatives for Social Empowerment

Kai-yuh Hsiao Thesis Defense: Embodied Object Schemas for Grounding Language

Guy Hoffman Thesis Proposal Defense

Ari Benbasat - Thesis Defense: An Automated Framework for Power-Efficient Detection in Embedded Sensor Systems

Nikolaos Mavridis - Thesis Defense: Grounded Situation Models for Situated Conversational Assistants

Roberto Aimi Thesis Defense: Percussion Using Sampled Acoustics

Jason Taylor Thesis Defense: "Controlling Molecules with Lasers and Lasers with Molecules"

Hyun-Yeul Lee Thesis Defense - Storied Objects: Design Thinking with Time

Aisling Kelliher Thesis Defense: Everyday Storytelling

Win Burleson Thesis Defense: Affective Learning Companions

Andrew Brooks Thesis Defense: Coordinating Human-Robot Communication

Robbin Chapman Thesis Defense - Pearls of Wisdom: Technology for Reflection and Learning in Constructionist Cooperatives

Hugo Liu Thesis Defense: Computing Point-of -View

Benjamin Recht Thesis Defense: Convex Modeling with Priors

Ashish Kapoor Thesis Defense: Learning Discriminative Models with Incomplete Data

Paul Nemirovsky Thesis Defense: Improvisational Interaction: a Framework for Structural Exploration of Media

Jacky Mallet Thesis Defense: The Role of Groups in Smart Camera Networks

Constantine K. Christakos Thesis Defense: Distributed-in/ Distributed-out Sensor Networks

Marc Downie Thesis Defense: Choreographing the Extended Agent: Performance Graphics for Dance Theater

Carson Reynolds Thesis Defense: Adversarial Uses of Affective Computing and Ethical Implications

Peter Gorniak Thesis Defense: The Affordance-Based Concept

Cameron Marlow Thesis Defense: The Structural Determinants of Media Contagion

Erik Blankinship Thesis Defense: Who's Got Game (Theory)?

Jeana Frost Thesis Defense: Decision Making in the Information Age: A Study of and Design for Online Dating

Fernanda Viégas Thesis Defense: Revealing Individual and Collective Pasts: Visualizations of Online Social Archives

Alexandra Mazalek Thesis Defense: Media Tables: An Extensible Method for Developing Multi-User Media Interaction Platforms for Shared Spaces

Aggelos Bletsas Thesis Defense: Intelligent Antenna Sharing

Tristan Jehan Thesis Defense: Creating Music by Listening

Wei Chai Thesis Defense: Automated Analysis of Musical Structure

Joan DiMicco: Changing Small Group Interaction through Visual Reflections of Social Behavior

Nathan Eagle Thesis Defense: Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems

Stefan Marti Thesis Defense: Autonomous Interactive Intermediaries: Social Intelligence for Mobile Communication Agents

Kimiko Ryokai Thesis Defense: The World as a Palette

Brian Whitman Thesis Defense: Learning the Meaning of Music

Barbara Barry Thesis Defense: Mindful Documentary

Tara Shankar Thesis Defense: Speaking on the Record

Andrew Sparks Thesis Defense: Scanning Probe Microscopy With Inherent Disturbance Suppression Using Micromechanical Devices

Nyssim Lefford Thesis Defense: The Structure, Perception and Generation of Musical Patterns

Sunil Vemuri Thesis Defense: Personal Long-Term Memory Aids

Natalia Marmasse Thesis Defense: Providing Lightweight Telepresence in Mobile Communication to Enhance Collaborative Living

Karrie Karahalios Thesis Defense: Social Catalysts: Enhancing Communication in Mediated Spaces

Pengkai Pan Thesis Defense: Mobile Cinema

Saul Griffith Thesis Defense: Growing Machines

Eric Wilhelm Thesis Defense: Printed Electronics and Micro-electromechanical Systems

Yael Maguire Thesis Defense: Scalable Electromagnetic Microstructure Instrumentation

Rich DeVaul Thesis Defense: The Memory Glasses: Wearable Computing for Just-in-Time Memory Support

Stacy Morris Thesis Defense: A Shoe-Integrated Sensor System for Wireless Gait Analysis and Real-Time Therapeutic Feedback

Ben Fry Thesis Defense: Computational Information Design

Cagri Savran Thesis Defense: A Micromechanical Biosensor with Inherently Differential Readout

Tanzeem Choudhury Thesis Defense: Sensing and Modeling Human Networks

Raul Fernandez Thesis Defense: A Computational Model for the Automatic Recognition of Affect in Speech

Chris Hancock Thesis Defense: Real-Time Programming and the Big Ideas of Computational Literacy

Gili Weinberg Thesis Defense: Interconnected Musical Networks?Bringing Expression and Thoughtfulness to Collaborative Group Playing

Brent Ridley Thesis Defense: Printed Inorganic Transistors

Benjamin Vigoda Thesis Defense: Continuous-Time Analog Circuits for Statistical Signal Processing in Multiuser Communication

E. Rehmi Post Thesis Defense: Inertial Measurement via Dynamics of Trapped Particles

Youngmoo Kim Thesis Defense: Singing Voice Analysis/Synthesis

Hannes Vilhjalmsson Thesis Defense: Avatar Augmented Online Conversation

Vadim Gerasimov Thesis Defense: Every Sign of Life

Timothy Bickmore Thesis Defense

Matthew Reynolds Thesis Defense: Low Frequency Indoor Radiopositioning

Nitin Sawhney Thesis Defense: Cooperative Innovation in the Commons

Brian Clarkson Thesis Defense: Life Patterns: structure from wearable sensors

Sumit Basu Thesis Defense: Conversational Scene Analysis

Brygg Ullmer Thesis Defense: Tangible Interfaces for Manipulating Aggregates of Digital Information

Michael Patrick Johnson Thesis Defense: Exploiting Quaternions to Support Expressive Interactive Character Motion

Richard Fletcher Thesis Defense: Low-cost Electromagnetic Tagging: Design and Implementation

Bill Tomlinson Thesis Defense: Synthetic Social Relationships for Computational Entities