MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data fastcodesign.com Innovation By Design DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps. In the four years since the U.S. gov­ern­ment… http://flip.it/E0nsK Related articles … Continue reading MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

Neuromarketing with Affectiva

Life With Mind-Reading Machines Bianca Bosker, huffingtonpost.com Smile: Your computer is watching.Affectiva, a nearly 2-year-old startup that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab, is teaching machines to understand what you feel.Affectiva has developed a way for computers to recognize human emotions based on facial cues… RT @HuffingtonPost: What happens when machines know what you’re feeling? … Continue reading Neuromarketing with Affectiva

MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining This new center, part of the MIT Human Dynamics group, studies the ways we can use millions of sensors in portable devices already in common use to actually measure human behavior in real time. So, the end of psychology, the beginning of digital anthropology. Related articles Social Robots May Gain … Continue reading MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining. Related articles Electric car that that folds itself launches in Spain (reviews.cnet.com) MIT's Media Lab Brings Watching Movies at Home to a Whole New, Immersive Level [Video] (bostinno.com) New MIT Media Lab's invention promises more immersive TV viewing (InnovationToronto.com) A camera that can see around corners (cnn.com) MIT Media Lab's … Continue reading MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

Ethnography or Just Good Requirements Gathering – Exploring the Depths of Product Management

Ethnography or Just Good Requirements Gathering – Exploring the Depths of Product Management. MIT Media lab and other folks argue that the process of requirements gathering is just idiotic right now: take a word document and write all you can think of down there and then creating something out of that. Related articles Business Analyst … Continue reading Ethnography or Just Good Requirements Gathering – Exploring the Depths of Product Management