Anmol Madan

Selected Publications and Peer-reviewed Workshop Papers

Madan A., and Pentland A.," VibeFones: Socially aware Mobile Phones", short paper in proceedings of ISWC 2006, Switzerland (pdf)

Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A.," Voices of Attraction", presented at Augmented Cognition, HCI 2005, Las Vegas (pdf)

Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A., "GroupMedia: Distributed Multimodal Interfaces", accepted for proceedings of Sixth International Conference on MultiModal Interfaces (ICMI) October 2004, Penn State (pdf)

Sung M., Gips J., Eagle N., Madan A., Caneel R., Devaul R., Bonsen J. and Pentland A.,"MIT.EDU: M-Learning applications for Classroom Settings", the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL), 2004 (pdf)

Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A.," GroupMedia: Wearable Devices to Understand Social Context", Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys) 2004 ACM/USENIX workshop on Context Awareness, Boston, MA June 2004. (ppt)

Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A.," Towards Socially Intelligent Wearable Networks", Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2004) Student colloquium, Arlington VA November 2004. (pdf)

Technical Notes and Reports

Madan A." This Slices of Interest", Master's Thesis in the Media Laboratory, Advisor: Dr. Alex Pentland (pdf)

Madan A, "The Open Source Cellphone: Lead Users and Early Adopters in the Mobile Phone Industry", Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Sloan Business School, MIT, Spring 2006 (pdf)

Madan A, "Lenovo's Mobile Phone Strategy: Using Open Source to Compete with the Top Three" , Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Sloan Business School, MIT, Spring 2006 (pdf)

Gips J*, Madan A, "Using Machine Learning to Improve Group Coordination in Multiplayer Games", Human Dynamics Group, MIT Media Lab, December 2003 (pdf)

Fadnavis S.*, Madan A, Toley P.,"Bio-metrics Enabled Linux Based Embedded Security System", Senior Year Project Report, Axis Biometrics and Pune University, May 2003

(* all authors have contributed equally and are listed in alphabetical order)

Selected Media Coverage

Groupmedia / Wearable Computing

BBC National Channel 1, Scotland "VibeFones for Tourists around Loch Ness", 8th May 2006 (video)

Jerk-O-Meter Television Interviews / Appearances: German RDE 9 o'clock news, US News Channels.

Jerk-O-Meter Radio Interviews: BBC World Service UK, CNN, ABC, CBS, Irish RTE, Boston's WRKO, various global radio stations (listen)

National Public Radio: "MIT Device Calls Phone Users on Their Conduct", September 2005 (listen)

CNET News: "Software Helps You Stop Being a Jerk", August 2005 (link)

National Geographic: "Jerk-O-Meter measures Phone Rudeness", August 2005 (link)

The Chronicles of Higher Education: "Hey Jerk, I'm talking to you", September 2005

Slashdot (interesting comments): "Jerk-O-Meter Rates Phone Chatter", August 2005

Wired News: "Jerk-O-Meter Rates Phone Chatter", August 2005 (link)

ITWeek UK: "Boffins Develop phone call boredom spotter", August 2005

Australian IT: "Can't Tell If You're a Jerk?", August 2005

Stars & Stripes, Middle East Edition (delivered to US Troops in combat in Afghanistan), "Bored on the Phone? Beware Jerk-O-Meter", August 2005.

Yahoo News: "Bored on the Phone? Beware Jerk-O-Meter", August 2005.

BusinessWeek, Washington Post, USA Today, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Forbes, MSNBC : "Bored on the Phone? Beware Jerk-O-Meter", AP August 2005.(link)

The Washington Times: "How Rude! Jerk-O-Meter rates quality of phone-chatter", AP August 2005 (link)

CNN Tech Cover Story: "Bored on the Phone? Beware Jerk-O-Meter", Associated Press, Micheal Kunzelman August 2005. According to Google News, reproduced in about 300 media sources worldwide, including Chicago Tribune, ZDNet, Gizmodo.com, Engadget, Herald UK, etc. (cnn-tech-cover) (cnn-full-story)

MIT Technology Insider "Sociometrics" Video documentary about socially-intelligent wearables (QuickTime video)

BBC Radio Channel 4 "All in the Mind" radio interview with Dr.Raj Persaud about using speech features to predict Speed Dating outcomes, 19th April 2005 (link)

Make magazine, premiere issue "Welcome to the Fab Lab" coverage for work done in MAS 863, for the Interest Networks prototype, 1st Jan 2005 (link, subscription required)

New Scientist magazine "Rules of Attraction" coverage for speed dating experiment, 18th Dec 2004 (link, subscription required)

Start-Up Related

Boston Business Journal: "Semifinalists vie for share of $50,000 prize pool", 9th May 2005 (link)

Concept Car Class

Boston Globe: "MIT Media Lab drives car design into the future"
By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff, Nov. 16th 2003. (coverage for work in MAS 966, Concept Car Class) (link)

Popular Science: "The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car"
By Jessie Scanlon pp. 105-9, Sept. 2004.(coverage for work in MAS 966, Concept Car Class) (link)

MSNBC News: "MIT mulls the car of the future"
By Victoria Griffith , July 27, 2004. (coverage for work in MAS 966, Concept Car Class) (link)

WIRED magazine: "MIT Aims for the Bottom Line" May 2004. (coverage for work in MAS 966, Concept Car Class)

Indian Media

CNN-IBN hourly news: "Mobile Social Software" January 2006 (link)

Time of India: "Software rings in Cell phone Psycology " January 2006 (link)

India Abroad, Times of India, Hundustan Times and Rediff.com: "Bored on the Phone, Beware of the Jerk-O-Meter", August 2005 (link) (another link)

Times of India: "An Anmol contribution to wearable computing"
By Pradeep Akkunoor, Times News Network, July 2003

Times of India: "Its Projects Time in Engineering"
By Neil Pate, Times News Network, Mar. 11th 2003 (coverage for senior year project, Pune University)