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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

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by Sarah Beckmann

May 2, 2019

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Tangible Media head Hiroshi Ishii will accept the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award at CHI 2019, and a wide range of Media Lab research will also be represented at the conference.

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Hiroshi Ishii wins ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.
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Cyborg Botany wins the 2019 Golden Mouse Award at CHI

The Golden Mouse is a “Best of Show” award that recognizes the best overall submission to the CHI Video Showcase.
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PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
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Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…
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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon 2018

A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
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Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA, and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We monit…
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Bricoleur

Bricoleur allows makers of all ages to explore the creative possibilities of video and audio as programmable media on mobile devices. Using…
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MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device in…
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VizNet: Towards A Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository

Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization design…
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AttentivU

AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of person’s cognitive states available in different form-factors: glass…
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Byte.it

Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-free …
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Bubble: Wearable assistive grasping augmentation based on soft inflatables

Bubble is a pneumatically actuated wearable system that enables people with handdisabilities to use their own hands to grasp objects withou…
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Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limitati…
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VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation

Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for analys…
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SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…
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Papers by Media Lab researchers and alumni recognized with Honorable Mentions at CHI 2019

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Bubble: Wearable Assistive Grasping Augmentation Based on Soft Inflatables

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SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775
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SociaBowl equalizes across the table dialogue

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