Rachel

Research Projects

Monkey Business -
Monkey business is my Master's thesis project. I created a network of animatronic monkeys who act as audio-enabled agents. Through movement and sound, the monkey agents keep members of a distributed group of people informed about each other's current state and level of availability in an informal and light-hearted manner. Here is a large version of the poster. You can also find a more detailed Monkey Business webpage here.


EMotoPhone -
My first project at the Media Lab is called EMotoPhone, which enables users to send their emotions over a cell phone, using animated emoticons. The recipient of an animated emoticon can decide whether to accept a phone call from the sender, depending on the sender's current mood. Here you can see the poster I made for the sponsor week demos in October, 2004.


GalvaPhone -
GalvaPhone is the expansion of EMotoPhone, which in addition to sending a self-selected emotion over a cell phone, also sends a user's electrodermal activity (also known as the galvanic skin response). This measure is determined by a galvactivator - a glove that measures skin conductivity. More detailed information about the GalvaPhone project can be found here.


Translation Assistant -
For Henry Lieberman's class on Common Sense Reasoning, my officemate, Jae-woo Chung, and I built a topic spotting common sense Translation Assistant that can translate in real-time from English to Korean. We wrote a paper about our research, which was accepted to the CHI 2005 conference in Portland, Oregon. Here you can see the poster we exhibited at the conference.