Today, people can tell stories by composing, manipulating, and sequencing individual media artifacts using digital technologies. However, t…
Inspired by the Surrealists' Exquisite Corpse art game, the NeverEnding Drawing project is one of several applications developed on a scala…
This new version of the original online Confectionary project is open and extensible. Designed for constructing and exchanging mediated per…
The project explores how to best engage design collaborators in an ongoing dialogue following a design charette process. A video record of …
Papert's World invites colleagues, collaborators, friends, and family of Seymour Papert to contribute rich-media stories about his life, hi…
Digital media is increasingly becoming part of our everyday world, inviting us to think, communicate, and express ourselves more heterogene…
Designed with attention to the creation and expression of an historical perspective, Storied Objects present us with an object-centric view…
Many of us enjoy making, changing, and sharing digital media, but we are often unsure how to use or present our collections. This project a…
StoryNet is a large database of story-scripts and inference tools that can be used for case-based common-sense reasoning. Since people are …
This work exploits the spontaneity and connectivity speed afforded by mobile devices, combined with the organizational structure of a Weblo…
TViews is an integrated display and interaction table designed for collaborative exploration of multimedia applications in home and classro…
Through human actions, conversations, and the creation of memories, physical spaces are transformed into social constructs and can become t…
Documentary videography is a practice of observing the real world, recording video of desired events, and organizing the collection for pre…
Empowering Minds proposes a constructionist, networked model for teacher learning. The focus of the work will be to explore a new construct…
With the proliferation of cheap video cameras that are always on, and always ready to record, distinctions between the amateur and professi…
Time-lapse photographs reveal how an observed physical object sustains itself in an environment. Captured as two-dimensional images over ti…
You leave for work in the morning saluting your dog resting on the floor, wondering what he might be up to in the hours you don't see him. …
The Tangible StorySims project creates narrative simulation games that can be played out on the TViews display and interaction platform. Th…
MOVITS aim to make the exchanging, sharing, and publishing of phone-captured media more integrated, evolving, and fun. Modifiable presentat…
Expressive encoding of spatial ambience allows us to embed technological narratives in objects so as to provoke a re-thinking of our relati…
M-Views is a system for the development and deployment of context-aware mobile cinematic narratives. Designed around a generic messaging fr…
The Participatory Networked Camera (PNC) project supports ad hoc communication and image-sharing between independent camerapeople. The ongo…
The Mixer-Subverter is an online system that allows children to integrate the activites of play (from giving to stealing; from sharing to b…
Cinemaware is a custom-built capture, annotation, editing, and compression tool for preparing video content for integration with multiple d…
The Emonique project is a collaboration between the Interactive Cinema group and the Story Networks group (Media Lab Europe) to develop an …
This work focuses on the creation and prototyping of novel, mobile, interactive story experiences. The stories we create inhabit public spa…
Storytelling Engines are computer programs that manipulate media objects based on their knowledge of content, rules for story progression, …
Tangible Viewpoints is a storytelling application for interactive character-driven narratives that was designed for the TViews platform. Th…
To adapt this vision for video to the rapidly evolving Internet, we are developing an architecture for the Shareable Media project which is…
The concept of story, or narrative, is closely associated with the understanding of self. Human beings use the narrative thread to interpre…
The skin is a versatile organ, capable of fine temporal and spatial discriminations. Touch is considered by many to be the most important o…
Flights of Fantasy is an interactive research and installation project that focuses on the acts of receiving and sending video messages. In…
The Emonator project is aimed at affective information browsing and exchange. We are using an innovative gesture controller as our input in…
Affordable, easy-to-use digital video equipment, widely available high-bandwidth connectivity, and the variability of distributed networks …
StoryBeads are an interactive wearable for constructing narratives through collecting, trading and sequencing images. Individual beads, lab…
PlusShorts is a Java applet designed to encourage and facilitate online collaboration between videomakers. The system uses punctuation as a…
Happenstance is flexible storytelling testbed that expands the traditional literary and theatrical notions of place and situation to accomm…
GuideShoes is a wearable system that explores how aesthetic forms of expression can deliver both an aesthetic experience and background inf…