Shape displays render digital content as dynamic physical shapes. They enable multiple users to touch, feel, and deform their surface topology in order to understand information, express ideas, and collaborate. But while these interfaces hold great promise, their application areas are not yet well defined and few specific interaction techniques have been developed for them.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Jul 07 15 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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Speaker:
Daniel Leithinger Host/Chair:
Hiroshi Ishii
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Jul 06 15 12:00am - Jul 07 15 12:00am
Tokyo, Japan
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The New Context Conference, an annual conference hosted by Digital Garage and Joi Ito, co-founder of Digital Garage and current director of the MIT Media Lab, will take place this year’s on July 6-7 at Toranomon Hills, Tokyo. From 2005, the conference has discussed seminal topics surrounding internet business and technology. This year’s conference will focus on two major themes: Digital Currency and Virtual Reality, and how these two upcoming technologies will change our way of conducting business -- and our way of living -- over the next 5 to 10 years. |
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Jul 02 15 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA
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Speaker:
Cesar Hidalgo |
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Jul 02 15 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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Speaker:
Roy Shilkrot Participant(s)/Committee:
Pattie Maes Wearable computers are becoming a widespread reality. Driven by a human quest for sensorial ultrability (ultra-ability) and control of our environment and bodies, we search for ever intimal solutions to increase our innate physical capacities using technology. Finger-wearable devices for augmentation are nowadays part of the mainstream wearable fashion and research agenda, because of their uniquely convenient placement on the human body and proximity to the most sensitive of limbs—the fingers. |
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Jun 23 15 9:00am - Jun 25 15 6:00pm
San Francisco, CA
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Hardware, software, sensors, and physical things are coming together in uncharted waters. To succeed, you’ll need to build teams that cross disciplines in ways never before attempted. Envision new business models. And recognize the “crazy” ideas that are now entirely possible. Joi Ito (Director, Media Lab): Co-Chair of Solid with Jon Bruner; Keynote speaker |
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May 29 15 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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 Speaker:
Ioannis Gkioulekas Host/Chair:
Camera Culture
Ioannis Gkioulekas presents a computational imaging system, inspired by the optical coherence tomography (OCT) framework, that uses interferometry to produce decompositions of light transport in small scenes or volumes. The system decomposes transport according to various attributes of the paths that photons travel through the scene, including where on the source the paths originate, their pathlengths from source to camera through the scene, their wavelength, and their polarization. |
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May 16 15 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Montreal Symphony
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May 12 15 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Speaker:
Alexandra Metral Screening of a 14-minute documentary about the Media Lab's "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Hackathon with an introduction from the Hackathon organizers, followed by light refreshments and a Q&A with the filmmaker, Alberta Chu of ASKlabs Productions. |
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May 09 15 9:00am - May 10 15 4:00pm
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May 08 15 2:30pm - 4:00pm
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 Christine Sun Kim uses the medium of sound through technology, performance, and drawing to investigate and rationalize her relationship with sound and spoken languages. Selected group exhibitions and performances include: Sound Live Tokyo, Tokyo; LEAP, Berlin; Carroll / Fletcher, London; nyMusikk, Oslo; Andquestionmark, Stockholm; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Recess Activities, New York; Calder Foundation, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
