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

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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...

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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 produ...

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 ver...

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 t...

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 inter...

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 wol...

in Synthetic Characters
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