Today’s personal technologies are generally seen as reducing mindfulness. They introduce distractions, stress, privacy concerns and detrimental habits. This can cause an increase in behaviors that are misaligned with personal goals. Current attempts to use technology to improve well-being do not take advantage of some of the benefits that personal technologies have to offer. Specifically, they can intervene ”just-in-time” to nudge the user to reflect on their imminent behavior decision. This thesis focuses on designing mindful technology.
Past Talks and Colloquia
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Apr 25 16 11:00am - 12:30pm
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Speaker:
Niaja Farve Host/Chair:
Pattie Maes
Participant(s)/Committee:
Renee Gosline (MIT Sloan School of Management) John Guttag ( MIT CSAIL) Peter Szolovits (MIT CSAIL) |
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Apr 23 16 10:00am - 1:00pm
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Take a peek inside the MIT Media Lab during Under the Dome: the MIT 2016 open campus day, celebrating the 100th anniversary of MIT moving from Boston to our home in Cambridge! There are hundreds of activities all over the Institute. At the Lab, we'll feature demos, talks, hands-on activities, and the not-to-be-missed chance to come inside the Media Lab to see what we're all about. Please note: the Media Lab is open to the public from 10am to 1pm; other events at MIT take place from 10am to 3pm. |
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Apr 21 16 2:00pm - 3:05pm
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Speaker:
Red Hong Yi Host/Chair:
Jie Qi
Join artist "Red" Hong Yi as she describes her creative process of finding and creating the beautiful and unusual with everyday objects. She will also share about her newest interactive artwork being made in collaboration with Jie Qi. This piece will explore the materiality of drinking straws and LED lights, which will be exhibited at the Media Lab. |
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Apr 15 16 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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Speaker:
Giovanni Talei Franzesi Host/Chair:
Edward Boyden
Participant(s)/Committee:
Robert Desimone Matthew Wilson Neuronal action potentials (‘spikes’) are thought to be the fundamental units of information in the brain, hence the ability to record them and to understand their genesis is crucial to our comprehension of the biological underpinnings of our thoughts, memories, and feelings. |
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Apr 15 16 10:00am - 11:00am
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Speaker:
Yitzhak Pilpel Host/Chair:
Center for Bits and Atoms
One of the main principles of classical Darwinian evolution is that the genotype, which instructs the phenotype, undergoes random changes, and those changes that give rise to fit phenotypes at a given environment are selected for. According to the Lamarckian alternative, organisms can pass on characteristics that they acquired during their lifetime to their offspring in a process known as heritability of acquired traits, or "soft inheritance." In some of these cases the phenotype is partially inherited and may even be feed back into the genotype. |
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Apr 08 16 9:00am - Apr 26 16 5:00pm
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Curiosities of Paper Electronics |
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Mar 28 16 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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In a world capable of destroying itself, composer Tod Machover and evolutionary biologist Kevin Esvelt are both interested in helping our society make big and imperative changes. Machover with his crowd-sourced City Symphonies and Esvelt with Sculpting Evolution, which invents new ways to study and influence the evolution of ecosystems. They ask many questions; among them are these: |
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Mar 17 16 3:30pm - 5:30pm
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Thursday, March 17 Speakers include: Joi Ito |
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Mar 17 16 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Speaker:
Professor Keita Yasutomi Host/Chair:
Camera Culture
High-range resolution Time-of-Flight Image Sensors TOF cameras such as Kinect have been widely used for object and gesture recognition. However conventional TOF range imagers have had only range resolution of a few millimeters at best, which is very poor for measuring application such as 3D scanning system. For the mesuring 3D scanning system, we have been developing TOF range imagers with submillimeter or higher range resolution. The first prototype have achieved 0.25mm range resolution, which corresponds to 1.67ps time resolution. |
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Mar 16 16 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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 Speaker:
Shaka Senghor Tenzin Priyadarshi Joi Ito Host/Chair:
Joi Ito
Shaka Senghor was one of the first group of Director's Fellows at the Media Lab. On March 16, Senghor will read from his book, Writing My Wrongs, have a discussion with current Director's Fellow The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, and answer questions. |
