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Seven ways to create entertainment with impact

Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.
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CONJURE helps people who are visually impaired play video games

Hackster.io profiles CONJURE, a project from the Tangible Media group that provides a tactile display for video games.
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How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
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How Do You Like It So Far, podcast episode 20: Anushka Shah and civic entertainment in India

In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
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Mission Wildlife

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the poten…
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo

Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How scalable global networks are changing our media, our communities, and our businesses.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
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Halo: Wearable Lighting

Imagine a future where lights are not fixed to the ceiling, but follow us wherever we are. In this colorful world we enjoy lighting that is…