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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

#design #virtual reality #computer vision +43 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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Grounded Language Learning and Understanding

Language is grounded in experience. Unlike dictionaries which define words in terms of other words, humans understand many basic words in t…

in Social Machines
Deb Roy
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Artifacts of the Presence Era

Like the visible layers of a canyon, the layers in Artifacts of the Presence Era tell a story of past events. The images and sounds produce…

in Sociable Media
Judith S. Donath
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WatchMe

Communication is much more than the direct transfer of information. It is an interactive collaborative act including potentially rich verba…

in Living Mobile
Chris Schmandt
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Sensetable

Sensetable is a system that wirelessly, quickly, and accurately tracks the positions of multiple objects on a flat display surface. The tra…

in Tangible Media
Hiroshi Ishii · James Patten
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Squish: Using Toys to Direct Interactive Characters

Joysticks are a natural interface for controlling F-11s. Mice and keyboards suffice for document preparation. But what is the right interfa…

in Synthetic Characters
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AlphaWolf

AlphaWolf presents a synthetic wolf pack comprised of autonomous and semi-autonomous wolves who interact with each other much as real wolve…

in Synthetic Characters
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