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Chidi Holographic Video System. (2007)
Thomas A. Nwodoh, Stephen A. Benton
Holo-Chidi is a holographic video processing system designed at the MIT Media Laboratory for real-time computation of Computer Generated Holograms and the subsequent display of the holograms at video...
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES (2007)
Freedom Baird, Glorianna Davenport, Stephen A. Benton
The duet is a wonderfully appealing mode of interaction between two individuals. Its playful intimacy fosters an environment of shared agency in which expression through a common language yields a...
header for SPIE use Holographic recording using a digital micromirror device (2007)
Ryder S. Nesbitt, Steven L. Smith, Raymond A. Molnar, Stephen A. Benton
We describe the use of a digital micromirror device (Texas Instruments, Inc.’s DMD™) as a spatial light modulator for holographic applications. Questions of the interferometric effects of the...
Grandparents ' Stories By (2007)
Justine Cassell, Stephen A. Benton, Jennifer Smith, Jennifer Smith, Jennifer Smith
The act of sharing stories, which often characterizes the interactions between grandparents and grandchildren, exerts a profound influence on both the child listener and the grandparent teller....
in a Networked Virtual World for Kids (2007)
Mitchel Resnick, Stephen A. Benton, Amy Susan Bruckman, Amy Susan Bruckman
In research about the Internet, too much attention is paid to its ability to provide access to information. This thesis argues that the Internet can be used not just as a conduit for information, but...
Accepted by_________________________________________________________________________ (2007)
Ronald L. Macneil, Stephen A. Benton
the Space between the Spoken and the Written tara michelle graber rosenberger The advent of automated speech recognition opens up new possibilities for design of new typographic forms. Graphic...
of Media Arts and Sciences (2007)
Michael Tomlinson, Bruce M. Blumberg, Stephen A. Benton
Interactivity and Emotion through
Certified by: Accepted by: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (2007)
Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Nitin Sawhney, Nitin Sawhney
Nomadic Radio provides an audio-only wearable interface to unify remote information services such as email, voice mail, hourly news broadcasts, and personal calendar events. These messages are...
Certified by Accepted by (2007)
Stephen A. Benton, Michael W. Halle, Michael W. Halle
This thesis describes a computer graphics method for efficiently rendering images of static geometric scene databases from multiple viewpoints. Three-dimensional displays such as parallax...
and Yael Maguire for his 3D printing effort. REFERENCES (2007)
Carlton Sparrell, Michael Halle, John Underkoffler, We Bill Verplank, Valuable Discussion, Joel S. Kollin, ...
8. Watlington, J., et al., A hardware architecture for rapid generation of electro-holographic fringe patterns, in S.A. Benton,
Hardware-accelerated Autostereogram Rendering for Interactive 3D Visualization (2003)
Petz, Christoph, Goldluecke, Bastian, Magnor, Marcus, Woods, Andrew J., Merritt, John O., Benton, Stephen A., ...
Single Image Random Dot Stereograms (SIRDS) are an attractive way of depicting three-dimensional objects using conventional display technology. Once trained in decoupling the eyes' convergence and...
The Audio Notebook: Paper and Pen Interaction with Structured Speech (2001)
Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Lisa Joy Stifelman, Lisa Joy Stifelman
Using Punctuation as an Iconic System for Describing and Augmenting Video Structure (2001)
Aisling Geraldine, Mary Kelliher, Glorianna Davenport, Stephen A. Benton
Affordable digital cameras, high bandwidth connectivity and large-scale video hosting websites are combining to offer an alternative mode of production and channel of distribution for independent...
Music-listening systems (2000)
Eric D. Scheirer, Barry L. Vercoe, Stephen A. Benton, Eric D. Scheirer
When human listeners are confronted with musical sounds, they rapidly and automatically orient themselves in the music. Even musically untrained listeners have an exceptional ability to make rapid...
Music-Listening Systems (2000)
Barry L. Vercoe, Stephen A. Benton, Eric D. Scheirer, Eric D. Scheirer
When human listeners are confronted with musical sounds, they rapidly and automatically orient themselves in the music. Even musically untrained listeners have an exceptional ability to make rapid...
Story Beads: a wearable for distributed and mobile storytelling (2000)
Glorianna Davenport, Stephen A. Benton, Barbara A. Barry, Barbara A. Barry
Stories take hundreds of different forms and serve many functions. They can be as energetic as an entire life story or as simple as a case of directions to a favorite beach. Storytelling processes...
Just-In-Time Information Retrieval (2000)
Stephen A. Benton, Bradley James Rhodes, Bradley James Rhodes
This thesis defines Just-In-Time Information Retrieval agents (JITIRs): a class of software agents that proactively present potentially valuable information based on a person's local context in...
Recognition of Human Gesture (2000)
Andrew David Wilson, Aaron F. Bobick, Bruce M. Blumberg, Stephen A. Benton, Andrew David Wilson
Adaptive Models for the
An inertial measurement unit for user interfaces (2000)
Joseph A. Paradiso, Stephen A. Benton, Ari Yosef Benbasat, Ari Yosef Benbasat
of Media Arts and Sciences (2000)
Kelly Bowman Heaton, Michael Hawley, Stephen A. Benton, William L. Verplank, Carlos Cantu, Andrew Gallant, ...
The picture element, or pixel, is a conceptual unit of representation for digital information. Like all data structures of the computer, pixels are invisible and therefore require an output device to...
Geographically Unrestricted Music Collaboration (2000)
M. Nyssim Lefford, Stephen A. Benton, Barry Vercoe, M. Nyssim Lefford
Music production fuses the technical requirements of the recording process with the aesthetic imperative of music creation and performance. The producer is an advocate for both technical and artistic...
Recognition of Human Gesture (2000)
Andrew David Wilson, Aaron F. Bobick, Bruce M. Blumberg, Stephen A. Benton, Andrew David Wilson
Adaptive Models for the
Creating Hyperlinked Video by (1999)
Jonathan Dakss, V. Michael Bove, Stephen A. Benton, Jonathan Dakss
Towards a Table Top Quantum Computer (1999)
Yael G. Maguire, Neil Gershenfeld, Stephen A. Benton, Yael G. Maguire, Yael G. Maguire
In the early 1990s, quantum computing proved to be an enticing theoretical possibility but a extremely difficult experimental challenge. Two advances have made experimental quantum computing...
A Processing System for Real-Time Holographic Video Computation. (1999)
Thomas A. Nwodoh, V. Michael Bove, John Watlington, Stephen A. Benton, Stephen A
This paper discusses the Chidi holographic video processing system (called Holo-Chidi) used for real-time computation of Computer Generated Holograms and the subsequent display of the holograms at...
Edgelit holography: Extending Size and Color (1999)
Stephen A. Benton, Ryder Sean Nesbitt, Ryder Sean Nesbitt, Ryder Sean Nesbitt, Joseph Jacobson
This thesis provides details of research undertaken to determine practical methods of increasing the size and color capabilities of the edgelit hologram. Primary emphasis lies in the application of...
IMPS: Implicit Surfaces for Interactive (1999)
Animated Characters Computer, Bruce M. Blumberg, Stephen A. Benton, Kenneth Bradley Russell, Kenneth Bradley Russell, Alex P. Pentland, ...
Implicit surface modeling in computer graphics is a powerful technique for representing smooth and organic shapes. Skeletal elements of an implicit surface blend to create a smooth, seamless skin...
Natalia Marmasse, Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton
How many times have you gone to the grocery store but left your shopping list on the refrigerator door? Wouldn't it be more efficient to have a reminder to buy groceries and the shopping list...
Program in Media Arts and Sciences Certified by ___________ (1999)
Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Aaron F. Bobick, Stephen A. Benton
This thesis presents new theory and technology for the representation and recognition of complex, context-sensitive human actions in interactive spaces. To represent action and interaction a symbolic...
Visual Recognition of Multi-Agent Action (1999)
Aaron F. Bobick, Stephen A. Benton, Stephen Sean Intille, Stephen Sean Intille
Contextual Awareness, Messaging and Communication in Nomadic Audio Environments (1998)
Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Nitin Sawhney, Nitin Sawhney
Nomadic Radio provides an audio-only wearable interface to unify remote information services such as email, voice mail, hourly news broadcasts, and personal calendar events. These messages are...
FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF (1998)
Brenden Courtney Maher, Christopher Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Brenden Courtney Maher
This thesis presents a system for browsing and navigating a database of recorded speech. It uses a spatialized audio environment, taking advantage of the human ability of simultaneous listening. A...
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (1998)
This thesis proposes to fix online shopping by guiding it away from price comparisons and toward value comparisons. Though price comparisons may be adequate for simple products (e.g., books and...
A Computational Memory and Processing Model for (1998)
Janet Elizabeth Cahn, Kenneth Haase, Stephen A. Benton, Janet Elizabeth Cahn
the
Designing An Ecology Of Distributed Agents (1998)
Pattie Maes, Stephen A. Benton, Nelson Minar, Nelson Minar, Nelson Minar
The Internet is a rich environment for computation. There is a need for design principles to organize distributed computational activity on the Internet, something analogous to the way the World Wide...
PATINA: Layering a History-of-Use on Digital Objects (1998)
Stephen A. Benton, Ansel Arjan Schütte, Ansel Arjan Schütte, Judith Donath
This thesis contains a set of experiments that explore the creation and impact of social traces on digital objects. I hypothesize that layering a "history-of-use" on digital objects will...
Conjoint Probabilistic Subband Modeling (1997)
Rosalind W. Picard, Stephen A. Benton, Ashok Chhabedia Popat, Ashok Chhabedia Popat
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Models and Mechanisms for Tangible User Interfaces (1997)
Stephen A. Benton, Brygg Anders Ullmer, Brygg Anders Ullmer, Brygg Anders Ullmer
Current human-computer interface design is dominated by the graphical user interface approach, where users interact with graphical abstractions of virtual interface devices through a few...
Camera for Electronic Cinematography (1997)
Christopher James Verplaetse, Neil Gershenfeld, Stephen A. Benton, Christopher James Verplaetse
in partial ful llment of the requirements for the degree of
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF (1996)
Atty Thomas Mullins, Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Atty Thomas Mullins, M. Schmandt, Walter Bender
The focus of this thesis is the design and implementation of a system for efficiently browsing large audio databases. Although audio is rich and highly expressive, from a retrieval standpoint its...
Michael Boyle Johnson, Michael Boyle Johnson, David L. Zeltzer, Stephen A. Benton, Michael Boyle Johnson
semi-autonomous animated characters a testbed for constructing 3D author: Bachelor of Science
Louis Murray Weitzman, Ronald Macneil, Stephen A. Benton
Interpretation and presentation of information in dynamic environments Louis Murray Weitzman Design of information presentation is undergoing significant changes. Documents are information interfaces...
Toward Effective Conversational Messaging (1995)
Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Matthew Talin Marx, Matthew Talin Marx
The ubiquity of the telephone suggests it as an ideal messaging tool. The slow, serial output of speech, however, makes it difficult to find important messages quickly. MailCall, a telephone-based...
NewsComm: A Hand-Held Device for Interactive Access to Structured Audio (1995)
Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Deb Kumar Roy, Deb Kumar Roy, Walter Bender
The NewsComm system delivers personally selected audio information to mobile users through a hand-held audio playback device. The system provides a one-toone connection from individual users to...
Evolving Visual Routines (1995)
Pattie Maes, Stephen A. Benton, Michael Patrick Johnson, Michael Patrick Johnson
Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision system recovers a complete, labeled description of the world [Marr, 1982] . Recently, several researchers have criticized this model and proposed an...
Minimum Information Holograms (1995)
Ravikanth Srinivasa Pappu, Stephen A. Benton
Advisor: Title: The goal of this thesis is to characterize the redundancy inherent in a holographic fringe pattern and develop novel ways to eliminate it. The thesis consists of three independent but...
Minimum-Pixel Holograms (1995)
Stephen A. Benton, Ravikanth S. Pappu
Canonical minimal-pixel hologram geometries are presented in the context of a generalized image relay system. We illustrate that the number of pixels ultimately depends only on the physical...
Dynamic Timelines - Visualizing Historical Information in Three Dimensions (1995)
Robin L. Kullberg, William J. Mitchell, Stephen A. Benton
This thesis considers the form and function of the visual communication of historical information in computer-based media. By applying new techniques derived from traditional graphic design and...
NewsTalk: A Speech Interface to a Personalized Information Agent (1995)
Chistopher M. Schrnandt, Stephen A. Benton, Jeffrey Alan Herman, Jeffrey Alan Herman
Abstract: Personalized information agents have proven to be useful tools for a number of tasks. To date, these tools have required a person to use a visual display in the current situation. However,...
Toward Effective Conversational Messaging (1995)
Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Matthew Talin Marx, Matthew Talin Marx
The ubiquity of the telephone suggests it as an ideal messaging tool. The slow, serial output of speech, however, makes it difficult to find important messages quickly. MailCall, a telephone-based...
Interactive Access to Structured Audio (1995)
Deb Kumar Roy, Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Deb Kumar Roy, Walter Bender
at the
Electronic Holography: The Newest (1994)
Mark Lucente, Stephen A. Benton
Electro-holography, invented at the MIT Media Laboratory Spatial Imaging Group only five years ago, is a truly three-dimensional real-time digital imaging medium. Recent work in electro-holography or...
Viewer-Plane Experiments with Computed Holography with the MIT Holographic Video System (1994)
Stephen A. Benton, John David Sutter, John David Sutter
Until this past year, all holographic video systems have been image-plane displays. This was not due to a lack of interest, but to a lack of width. The most recent version of the Mark II MIT...
Building the BIG Picture: Enhanced Resolution from Coding (1994)
Stephen A. Benton, Roger George Kermode, Roger George Kermode
Video Coding Algorithms based on Hybrid Transform techniques are rapidly reaching a limit in compression efficiency. A significant improvement requires some sort of new representation -- a better...
Isis, Cabbage and Viper: New tools and strategies for designing responsive media (1994)
Stephen A. Benton, Stefan Panayiotis Agamanolis, Stefan Panayiotis Agamanolis
Responsive media are media that can sense and react intelligently to factors like presentation conditions or equipment, audience identity or profile, direct interaction, history or anticipation of...
Doppelgänger Goes To School: Machine Learning for User Modeling (1993)
Cognitive Science, Walter Bender, Stephen A. Benton, Jon Orwant, Jon Orwant
One characteristic of intelligence is adaptation. Computers should adapt to who is using them, how, why, when and where. The computer's representation of the user is called a user model; user...
A new approach to holographic video (1992)
Mark Lucente, Pierre St. Hilaire, Stephen A. Benton, Derrick L. Arias, John A. Watlington
Recent advances in both the computation and display of holographic images have enabled several firsts. Interactive display of images is now possible using the bipolar intensity computation method and...
The Virtual Acoustic Room (1992)
William Grant Gardner, Barry Lloyd Vercoe, Stephen A. Benton
A room may be used for a wide variety of performances and presentations. Each use places different acoustical requirements on the room. We desire a method of electronically controlling the acoustical...
Color Images With The Mit Holographic Video Display (1992)
Pierre St-hilaire, Stephen A. Benton, Mark Lucente, Paul M. Hubel
The MIT holographic video display can be converted to color by illuminating the 3 acoustic channels of the acousto-optic modulator (AOM) with laser light corresponding to the red, green, and blue...
New Approaches to Holographic Video (1992)
Mark Lucente, Pierre St. Hilaire, Stephen A. Benton, Derrick L. Arias, John A. Watlington
Recent advances in both the computation and display of holographic images have enabled several firsts. Interactive display of images is now possible using the bipolar intensity computation method and...
Lisa Joy Stife, Christopher M. Schmandt, Stephen A. Benton, Lisa Joy Stifelman, Christopher M. Schmandt, Eric A. Hulteen
VoiceNotes: An Application for a
Pierre St. Hilaire, Stephen A. Benton, Mark Lucente, John Underkoffler, Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Any practical holographic display device relying on the MIT synthetic aperture approach will require timebandwith products far exceeding those available with single channel acousto-optic modulators...
The Ultragram: A Generalized Holographic Stereogram (1991)
Michael W. Halle, Stephen A. Benton, Michael A. Klug, John S. Underkoffler
A method for producing holographic stereograms with reduced geometrical constraints is presented. The type of holographic stereogram produced, called the ULTRAGRAM, can offer a combination of large...
Electronic Display System for Computational Holography (1990)
Pierre St. Hilaire, Stephen A. Benton, Mark Lucente, Mary Lou Jepsen, Joel Kollin, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, ...
We present an electro-optical apparatus capable of displaying a computer generated hologram (CGH) in real time. The CGH is calculated by a supercomputer, read from a fast frame buffer, and...
SLIPSTREAM: A Data Rich Production Environment (1990)
Stephen A. Benton, Alan Lasky, Alan Lasky
Film Production has always been a complex and costly endeavor. Since the early days of cinema, methodologies for planning and tracking production information have been constantly evolving, yet no...
A study of binocular depth perception /--by Stephen Anthony Benton. (1963)
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1963.