Salient stills: process and practice.(MIT Media Lab)
Unlike a photograph, which represents a discrete moment of time, a
salient still reflects the aggregate of the temporal changes that occur
in a moving image sequence. The salient still image may . . .
Experiments in digital graphic design.(MIT Media Lab)
Graphic design, layout, and the use of typography are among topics
discussed in this essay about the collaboration between an art director
at IBM and researchers at the Visible Language Workshop of . . .
Programmable bricks: toys to think with.(MIT Media Lab)
In this paper, we discuss the applications and implications of the
Programmable Brick--a tiny, portable computer embedded inside a LEGO[R]
brick' capable of Interacting with the physical world in a . . .
FramerD: representing knowledge in the large.(MIT Media
Lab)
Content-aware media applications require rich, interconnected
descriptions of media content. FramerD is an object-oriented database
developed at the MIT Media Laboratory to support just such . . .
Techniques for data hiding.(MIT Media Lab)
Data hiding, a form of steganography, embeds data into digital media
for the purpose of identification, annotation, and copyright Several
constraints affect this process: the quantity of data to be . . .
Instructible agents: software that just keeps getting better.(MIT
Media Lab)
Agent software is a topic of growing interest to users and developers
in the computer industry. Already, agents and wizards help users
automate tasks such as editing and searching for information. . . .
Things that blink: computationally augmented name tags.(MIT Media
Lab)
The conventional name tag automatically dispenses information at a
time when it is useful and relevant. The name of the person wearing the
tag is visible in a face-to-face encounter. The information . . .
The Computer Clubhouse: preparing for life in a digital
world.(MIT Media Lab)
The gap between the technological "haves" and
"have-nots" is widening, leading to dangerous economic and
cultural rifts in our society. But access,to technology alone is not
enough to bridge this . . .
Enriching communities: harbingers of news in the future. (news
presentation prototypes FishWrap, PLUM, The India Journal and MUS
Four prototypes of news presentation are described. These prototypes
share the common view of news presentation as a service that changes the
relationship between news providers and news consumers. . . .
A society of models for video and image libraries.(MIT Media
Lab)
The average person with a computer will soon have access to the
world's collections of digital video and images. However, unlike
text that can foe alphabetized or numbers that can be ordered, image . . .
Signal entropy and the thermodynamics of computation.(MIT Media
Lab)
Electronic computers currently have many orders of magnitude more
thermodynamic degrees of freedom than information-bearing ones (bits).
Because of this, these levels of description are usually . . .
Navigating large bodies of text.(MIT Media Lab)
The display of information by computers does not often fulfill the
promise of the computer as a visual information appliance. A design
experiment is described in this paper in which a large body of . . .
Using acoustic structure in a hand-held audio playback
device.(MIT Media Lab)
This paper discusses issues in navigation and presentation of voice
documents, and their application to a particular hand-held audio
playback device, called NewsComm. It discusses situations amenable . . .
For want of a bit the user was lost: cheap user modeling.
(DOPPELGANGER system)(MIT Media Lab)
The more a computer knows about a user, the better it can serve that
user. But there are different styles, and even philosophies, of how to
teach our computers about us--about our habits, interests, . . .
Multimedia based on object models: some whys and hows.(MIT Media
Lab)
In this paper I describe some of the design issues and research
questions associated with object based video coding algorithms, as well
as the new applications made possible. I propose a hardware and . . .
Field mice: extracting hand geometry from electric field
measurements.(MIT Media Lab)
Several members of a family of techniques called Electric Field
Sensing are described. Each sensing technique can be understood as a
measurement of the value of a different component in an . . .
Color as a determined communication.(MIT Media Lab)
Although it is possible that one viewer's perception of color
may be very different from another's, experimental evidence
suggests that the relationships between colors are, in many . . .
The interactive balloon: sensing, actuation, and behavior in a
common object.(MIT Media Lab)
In the not too distant future, new materials for sensing and
actuation, together with high-density, low-power electronics and
embedded computation, will bring interaction and intelligence . . .
Children's interests in news: on-line opportunities.(MIT
Media Lab)
Children's perspectives on news are presented. The context of
the discussion includes computer networks, interest research, and
constructionism. Projects are categorized by their relationship . . .
Computational holographic bandwidth compression. (includes terms
and abbreviations)(MIT Media Lab)
A novel technique to compute holographic fringe patterns for
real-time display is described. Hogelvector holographic bandwidth
compression, a diffraction-specific approach, treats a fringe . . .
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