Projects Introduction

Current projects

Going My Way consisting of an application that learns our everyday routes and provides directions from points along those paths. Going My Way provides directions, if available, based on personal landmarks rather than street names and intersections. We aim to reduce cognitive load by simplifying directions: guiding you to your destination with the knowledge of where you’ve been. Jaewoo Chung, Chaochi Chang, Paulina Modlitba
Beat Browser is an audio browser that makes it easy to surf arbitrarily large music libraries. The goal of Beat Browser is to give users a sense of exploring “live” and continuous audio while rapidly moving between sources by mouse. Jeff Goldenson
MonkeyToGo is a mobile extension of Monkey Business, our animatronic, remote- awareness network. Cell phones running our MonkeyToGo application can easily be added to the network in order to interact with and receive information from the agents in real time. If active, the connected cell phone vibrates and plays short animations and sound snippets in order to inform its user of ongoing activities at the remote locations. Jaewoo Chnng, Paulina Modlitba
Ringing in the Rain proposes a distributed, multi-agent architecture that uses GPS-enabled cell phones to build a mobile service development framework. The goal of this framework is to build mobile services to deliver timely changes in environmental information that could impact a user's current or future activities. A weather warning system is developed based on this framework as a demonstration to inform people to leave or detour in advance to avoid being caught in the rain. Chaochi Chang, Jaewoo Chung
Look Who’s Talking (LWT) aims to transcend the user’s various social settings and social groups. Among its novel features is the ability to grant ‘episodic access’ to the device owner’s context information in circumstances where their day-today access settings do not suffice. Matt Adcock
TimelessWords is an integrated, calendar-based life-sharing system to enhance the emotion-driven daily communication. Users can easily pre-record voice messages via a handheld device, and send the messages to other community members. TimelessWords users have a shared calendar. Messages will be delivered at scheduled moments to express timeless care. Dori Lin
The Democratic Public Address (DPA) systemis a distributed mesh network of decidedly inexpensive speaker nodes that play audio messages. Each node contains a microphone and speaker, and can be used to program the message that will be rebroadcast by the network. With the DPA, it is possible to easily and quickly deploy a freely accessible messaging platform in public spaces. Nodes are cheap enough that the deployments can be considered disposable, and usable in spaces where authoritarian presences restrict democratic speech. Charlie DeTar
The purpose of the extende version RiskMeter, "Determination of Safe Path using Risk Meter", is to introduce “Risk” as an additional factor in finding paths, where “Risk” generally represents crime rate. The project consists of two components. The first is “Risk Meter” which shows the chance of a crime in a given place at a given time. “Risk” is calculated based on the criminal record around MIT provided by Cambridge Police. The second component is Microsoft MapPoint which is used to find a path between two geographical locations. The task is to integrate Risk as on of the heuristics so that MapPoint can give multiple suggestions based on the Risk level of the paths. Stephan Kang, Jaewoo Chung