Communication impairments are a core characteristic of autism, affecting social-emotional interactions and broader language skills. Literature suggests the single most important prognostic indicator for young children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is language ability. The focus of new technologies to support learning and “digital literacy” provides an opportunity to address the unique needs of those diagnosed with ASD.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Dec 19 14 11:00am - 1:00pm
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Dec 18 14 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Recent advances in display technologies have moved computing onto physical surfaces, such as through projections and see-through screens. There is an opportunity to create an intuitive way to incorporate and share content generated on physical media within these systems. Pen and paper have been an effective communication medium for thousands of years and continue to be one of the most popular means to create even in the digital era. |
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Dec 01 14 9:00am - May 31 15 5:00pm
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
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Imagine handling objects virtually and physically in real time, from thousands of miles away. The Tangible Media Group, led by MIT Media Lab’s Hiroshi Ishii, is working on such a user interaction, transforming how we may communicate and work in the future. One current project is inFORM, a dynamic-shape display that gives physical form to digital information: physical “pixels” on a table surface move in real time, in accordance with data from a motion-sensing input device. |
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Nov 26 14 10:30am - 12:00pm
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 Speaker:
Lisa Mosconi Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting over 5 million people in the USA alone. Age-related mild cognitive impairments may affect two to three times as many individuals. As pharmacological treatments for AD are limited, there has been growing interest in identifying non-pharmacological treatment strategies that focus on ameliorating individual medical and lifestyle risk factors as a way of delaying or preventing the onset of AD symptoms. |
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Nov 24 14 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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 Speaker:
Dr. Mohit Gupta Host/Chair:
Camera Culture
Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras are fast becoming the method of choice for depth sensing in a wide range of applications. Several low cost and compact ToF systems are available as commodity devices, including the Microsoft Kinect. A major problem faced by ToF sensors is multipath interference (MPI) due to interreflections and scattering. MPI often results in large depth errors, especially in enclosed scenes and in fog and smoke. I will present our recent work on mitigating the multipath problem by using high frequency (spatial and temporal) illumination. |
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Nov 20 14 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public. |
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Nov 19 14 10:30am - 12:00pm
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 Speaker:
Dr. Dinesh John, Northeastern University This talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please join our mailing list by sending an email to wellness-seminars-join [at] media [dot] mit [dot] edu |
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Nov 18 14 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Speaker:
Kelly Dobson Kelly Dobson is an artist and engineer who pioneered the Parapraxis of Machine Design, a novel area of research examining how people relate to and through machines beyond their intended purposes. Her highly interdisciplinary work spans art, technology, medicine, and culture. |
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Nov 14 14 12:00pm - 2:00pm
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Designers of interactive products have long sought to match form with function. The physical affordances of a design make it easier for users to interact with products like cameras, car, or music production tools where people need to attend to many tasks simultaneously, and where precision and expressivity is required. |
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Nov 12 14 3:00pm - 4:30pm
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 All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public. |
