Scott is a 4th year Phd student interested in using wearables for just-in-time information, memory augmentation, and learning. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and German from Northwestern University, a master’s in Scientific Computing from the Free University of Berlin, and a master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT. Some of his favorite technologies are Google Glass, Android, HTML5, and NFC....
Associate Director, MIT Media Lab Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Co-Director, Things That Think Head, Tangible Media Group Tangible Media focuses upon the design of seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment. Hiroshi Ishii, a Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, joined the MIT Media Laboratory in October 1995. He founded the Tangible Media Group to pursue a new vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI): “Tangible Bits.” His group seeks to change the “painted bits” of GUIs to “tangible bits” by giving physical form to digital information. Currently, the Tangible Media Group is working to evolve their vision of “Tangible Bits” to “Radical Atoms.” Prof. Ishii and his team have presented their vision of “Tangible Bits” at a variety of academic, industrial design, and artistic venues (including ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, Industrial Design Society of America, AIGA, Ars Electronica, Centre Pompidou, and Victoria and Albert Museum) emphasizing that the development of tangible interfaces requires the rigors of both scientific and artistic review. A display of many of the group’s projects took place at the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo in the summer of 2000. The following year, a three-year-long exhibition titled “Get in Touch” featured the Tangible Media group’s work at Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria) from September 2001 through August 2004. Professor Ishii was elected to CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI in 2006. Prior to joining the MIT Media Lab from 1988-1994, Prof. Ishii led a CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work) research group at NTT Human Interface Laboratories Japan, where his team invented TeamWorkStation and ClearBoard. Prior to founding the Tangible Media Group, Prof. Ishii was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Canada from 1993-1994. He has also received several degrees in engineering, including a B.E. degree in electronic engineering, M.E. and Ph.D degrees in computer engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1978, 1980, and 1992, respectively. http://tangible.media.mit.edu/person/hiroshi-ishii/ Photo Credit: Junichi Otsuki...
Seth Hunter is a user experience research scientist at Intel Labs. He has a PhD from the MIT Media Lab where he explored how to design media interfaces that are more socially and physically engaging. He is currently working on new applications that facilitate creative expression and social interaction. He has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been employed as a toy designer, multimedia developer, instructional technologist, media artist, and teacher. Company: Intel Labs http://www.perspectum.com Related Products:...
Rob Hemsley is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab’s Information Ecology group. His work explores how we can extend our interaction around our existing digital ecosystem building more intuitive and seamless interactions between our physical objects and their digital counterparts. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Rob worked for British Telecom. Born in the UK, he received a BSc in Computer Science with Distributed & Mobile Systems from Cardiff University where he worked as a researcher as part of the EU Socialnets initiative....
Dhairya is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. His work is inspired by mythologies, super humans and the world around him. Most of his work addresses problems and opportunities he sees around him; more often than not, its also a result of excessive day dreaming and taking reality with a pinch of salt. Presently, he is working on the idea of programming intuition and augmenting humans with new skills and capabilities. In his previous life, he made some ice-cubes that know how much you’re drinking; was an open-source toy designer – used to make educational toys from eWaste; emotional softwares, plants and robots; built new expressive interfaces for autistic kids; had an mGovernance startup in rural India; hack electronics to repurpose them....
Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. It creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, and affective computing. Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in more than 25 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to a stackable, electric car for sustainable cities, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner.” The Lab is committed to looking beyond the obvious to ask the questions not yet asked–questions whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play. http://www.media.mit.edu/...
Natan is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. His work fuses design and engineering to create novel human experiences. Natan’s background is in Computer Science, Product Design and Entrepreneurship. As a ten-year industry veteran, he worked for Sun Microsystems, and was the co-founder of Samsung Electronics Israel R&D Center and served as its Mobile R&D General Manager. He was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Jerusalem Venture Partners. Just before joining the MIT Media Lab, he was the Lead UI Designer at Heartland Robotics (now Rethink Robotics). Natan holds a BA in Computer Science from the IDC in Herzeliya and a M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Natan is passionate about new consumer technologies; he holds several patents in Mobile and HCI domains. His academic and professional work has been widely published in popular press and academic conferences such as TEDx, CHI, UIST, Wired magazine, and many more. Natan is a Co-founder of Formlabs....