Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes is an Associate Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences at MIT. She founded and runs the ambient intelligence research group. Previously she founded and ran the Software Agents research group.

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Marcelo Coelho

Marcelo Coelho is a first year MS student at the MIT Media Lab. His work explores how technology can refashion communication by incorporating computation into common substrates and materials. Some of his projects include shape-changing garments, flying robots and edible circuits. Marcelo also holds a BFA in Computation Arts from Concordia University and, before joining the Ambient Intelligence Group, he was a research partner at XS Labs developing wearable technology and interactive textiles.

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Seth Hunter

Seth is an artist and developer interested in designing new social and communicative interfaces with computational tools.

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David Merrill

David is a third year Ph.D. student in the Ambient Intelligence group at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests revolve around expanding human capabilities with creative, thoughtfully designed technology.

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Pranav Mistry

Pranav is a second year graduate student at the MIT Media Lab. Pranav’s research interests include intelligent interactive systems, tangible interactions, social computing, collective intelligence and robotics. He got his master and bachelor degree from IIT Bombay, India, and has the background in Computer Science and Design.

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Sajid Sadi

Sajid Sadi is a first year PhD candidate and research assistant at the Media Lab. He is interested in creating interface both physical and digital that allow people to connect more naturally and intuitively to the creative and generative capabilities that modern technology allows us. He is also interested in the social consequences of technology and the ways in which creative technologies can change the way that people live and think.

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Alyssa Wright

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Amit Zoran

Amit is a new graduate student in the Ambient Intelligence group.
He has background is in computer engineering, signal and image processing on the one hand and art and design on the other.

His work focuses on re-thinking traditional craftsmanship in our “high tech” era, specifically in the fields of music and art. More than once we feel that “old” isn’t necessarily bad but sometimes actually better i.e. the term “vintage”, when it comes to musical instruments. Can technology make a change and add a trademark value without damaging the old ones? Amit is interested in exploring how technology can be “cool” while still preserving the user experience quality of the “legendary”.

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David Bouchard

David is a second year MS student at the Media Lab. His background is in computation art. He received a double major in Computer Science and Fine Arts from Concordia University. David's research interests include interactive environments, displays for public spaces, musical controllers and emergent behaviour systems.

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Enrico Costanza

Enrico Costanza graduated from the Media Lab in 2006 and is a currently a Research Assistant and PhD student in the Laboratoire de design et media, newly created at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne by Prof Jeffrey Huang. His research in Switzerland will focus on the intersection between Urban Studies / Architecture / Design and Interactive Technology, especially mobile devices. He is interested in the use of technology for artistic expression and interpersonal communication, and aims to design technology that is natural for people to use.

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Assaf Feldman

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David Gatenby

David's work at MIT built off his previous work at NYU and explores how endowing physical objects with intelligence and behavior and assimilating computers into the real world can make interacting with them more natural. His work at NYU focused on multi-agent systems, visual modeling, and virtual characters.

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Brad Lassey

Brad Lassey is interested in user interface design and is currently working on location based messaging for mobile devices.

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Xinyu H. Liu

Hugo Liu is a second-year doctoral candidate who is interested in how subconscious phenomena such as identity, aesthetics, emotion, and memory can be harnessed for interactive experience. Hugo has a background in cognitive linguistics, commonsense computing, and philosophy. Xinyu H. Liu

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James Teng

James Teng is blending his interests in social science, design, and computing to design new ways of thinking about the interaction between human and computer and the environment. He is doing research in building up objects and services that push computing intelligence into the background, with the objective of enriching our understanding and perception of the environment and our inner/public self. He got his master and bachelor degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and has the background in EECS and Design.

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Orit Zuckerman

Orit's interest is to create a new class of “connected objects” that remember our behavior over time, and leverage machine learning to redefine the way we use objects. She is interested in taking passive objects like portraits and transform them into a “living agents” that will enrich our environment in an evocative, intuitive way and strengthen the connection between people and the objects they care about.

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