Collaborating and media creation are difficult tasks, both for people and for network architectures. CoCam is a self-organizing network for real-time camera image collaboration. Like all camera apps, just point and shoot; CoCam then automatically joins other media creators into a network of collaborators. Network discovery, creation, grouping, joining, and leaving is done automatically in the background, letting users focus on participation in an event. We use local P2P middleware and a 3G negotiation service to create these networks for real-time media sharing. CoCam also provides multiple views that make the media experience more exciting–such as appearing to be in multiple places at the same time. The media is immediately distributed and replicated in multiple peers, thus if a camera phone is confiscated other users have copies of the images.

Droplet is a tangible interface which explores the movement of information between digital and physical representations. Through light-based communication, the project allows information to be easily extracted from its digital form behind glass and converted into mobile tangible representations thus altering its form and our perception of the information.

In Linear Mandala, a single participant wears a custom headset outfitted with an electroencephalography (EEG) sensor. The participant walks alongside a row of monitors and speakers. Video, sound, and the physical headset are designed to support contemplation. In real time, a shadow-like avatar pushes a ball of objects representing each participant's brain activity. The participant must maintain a consistent brain state for the avatar and ball to move forward in tandem with his physical movement.

MobileP2P aims to magically populate mobile devices with popular video clips and app updates without using people's data plans by opportunistically connecting nearby devices together when they are in range of each other.

Functionally, television content delivery has remained largely unchanged since the introduction of television networks. NeXtream explores an experience where the role of the corporate network is replaced by a social network. User interests, communities, and peers are leveraged to determine television content, combining sequences of short videos to create a set of channels customized to each user. This project creates an interface to explore television socially, connecting a user with a community through content, with varying levels of interactivity: from passively consuming a series, to actively crafting one's own television and social experience.

Qooqle allows people to reshape their interactions with computing and reorganize the world’s information through their casual conversations and habitual gestures. Qooqle combines mobile, cloud, and social media to draw people closer to computing and make computers more invisible. The multi-modal user interface of Qooqle allows people to engage with one another and the information world more naturally.

Recently, multi-view display hardware has made compelling progress in graphics. Soundaround is a multi-viewer interactive audio system, designed to be integrated into unencumbered multi-view display systems, presenting localized audio/video channels with no need for glasses or headphones. Our technical work describes a framework for the design of multi-viewer interactive audio systems that is general and supports optimization of the system for multiple observation planes and room responses.

StackAR explores the augmentation of physical objects within a digital environment by abstracting interfaces from physical to virtual implementations. StackAR is a Lilypad Arduino shield that enables capacitive touch and light base communication with a tablet. When pressed against a screen the functionality of StackAR extends into the digital environment, allowing the object to become augmented by the underlying display. This creates an augmented breadboard environment where virtual and physical components can be combined and prototyped in a more intuitive manner.

Truth Goggles attempts to decrease the polarizing effect of perceived media bias by forcing people to question all sources equally by invoking fact -checking services at the point of media consumption. Readers will approach even their most trusted sources with a more critical mentality by viewing content through various "lenses" of truth.