Jackie
Chia-Hsun Lee 
I'm interested in designing and prototyping everyday objects in order to enrich our living experience and make technology connect people's emotion and feelings.
I'm in the Ph.D Program of Media Arts and Sciences at the Media Lab, MIT. Now I'm working with Prof. Ted Selker, Ernesto Arroyo and Matthew Hockenberry in the Context-Aware Computing Group and Counter Intelligence Special Interest Group.
(Last updated on September 9, 2007 )
News.
Nightmarket 2007 workshop was held in Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 23~26, 2007), organized by Jackie Lee
'Entangled Apples' (Jackie Lee, Wu-Hsi Li, Chaochi Chang, and Jon Wetzel) got the 4th place in Simplicity- Eat Your Media (4th annual prototype-a-thon) at MIT Media Lab.
Emotionally Reactive Television (HiTV) was presented as a short paper in Intelligent User Interface 2007, Jan 28-30, 2006.
Forum: 'Technology is rooted from human life' was held at National Taiwan Univ. in Taipei, Taiwan on Jan. 6 (sat.), 2007
Lover's Cups and HiTV were demonstrated in Nordic Exceptional Trendshop in Copenhagen, Denmark during Dec. 1~3, 2006
Attention Meter won the Gold Prize in the 7th International University Student Creativity-in-Action contest in Taiwan, Nov. 18, 2006
Press.
< Lover's Cups on The Most Extreme, Animal Planet, 2007> (watch this video on YouTube)
< Lover's Cups on National Geographic Channel MadLabs (in Taiwan), Jan. 23, 2007> (watch this video on YouTube)
< MIT-MIT interview on a Taiwanese press, Jan. 13, 2007> (in Chinese)
< Jackie's Interview on Business Weekly in Taiwan, Oct. 30, 2006> (in Chinese)
< Jackie's Interview on Epoch times, Oct. 23, 2006> (in Chinese)
< Nightmarket 2006 on EGG Magazine, August 2006> (page1, page2)
< Lover's Cups on SAMPAN, Aug 4, 2006 > (English, Chinese, PDF News)
< Nightmarket 2006 MIT Media Lab team interviews on Intelligent Time, July, 2006> Link to Intelligent Time, PDF 11 pages (including Jackie, Francis, Edward, Chaochi, and Wu-Hsi)
< Lover's Cups on Discovery Channel, June 27, 2006 >
< Jackie's Interview on a Taiwanese Magazine, July, 2006>
< Lover's Cups on Boston Herald, April 10, 2006 >
< Lover's Cups on New Scientist on March 8, 2006>
< Lover's Cups on Reuters on March 8, 2006>
< Dining Together and Lover's Cups on Dragonfire, Feb 6th, 2006 >
< Boston Globe: FOOD- Even the kitchen sink, May 4th, 2005 >
< A short interview (in chinese) on August 7th, 2005 (mp3) >
< Wired News: MIT Media Lab Counter Intelligence Group, Oct. 12, 2005 >
Nightmarket 2007 is a design and prototyping workshop for creative designers and skilled practitioners. Since the Nightmarket 2006 workshop and Asia Reality 2005 workshop, we experienced great creativity and energy of graduate and undergraduate students in Taiwan. It made us to think about how to extend the passion of creating Taiwanese interactive arts installations. Why not we do it again? We found that providing a resourceful environment and gathering interdisciplinary people are the keys for a successful workshop and great inventions.
Nightmarket 2006 Workshop Summery by Jackie (in Chinese)
When watching TV, a person can pick up the HiTV soft ball to toss around or throw the ball to hit the TV when s/he doesn't like the character or contents in the TV. As the ball hits the TV, the character inside the TV program will get visually distorted and scream. With HiTV, the interaction and feedback of the TV experience can be greatly enhanced by considering the affective actions of TV audience and fulfilling their expectation from emotional reaction.
Attentive
Interaction Design Toolkit
We present a software toolkit that allows graphic designers to make camera-based interactive environments in a short period of time without experience in user interface design or machine vision. The Attention Meter, a vision-based input toolkit, gives users an analysis of faces found in a given image stream, including facial expression, body motion, and attentive activities. This data is fed to a text file that can be easily understood by humans and programs alike.
Lover’s Cups explore the idea of sharing feelings of drinking between two people in different places by using cups as communication interfaces of drinking. Two cups are connected with each other, and glow when your lover is drinking.
