From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; The Panel of Jason Wilmot, mediaX at Stanford University; Gilberto Topczewski, Producer and CEO, bigBonsai; and Dave Toole, CEO, MediaMobz examine how the creation of content using new media technologies is a frontier of the mediaX science storytelling initiative and how use cases involving new media and new media technologies enrich our studies of people and the ways they use technologies.

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Monica Lam, Professor of Computer Science, Director of MobiSocial Lab at Stanford University, explains why sharing is broken today and how the use of the open platform Omlet can help fix the current situation. To share today, we have to get our friends to join some social network, share according to the rules of that network, while giving up ownership of our data. Why can’t we just share anything we want with any...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Allan Reiss, Howard C. Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Radiology, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences (CIBSR) at Stanford University, discusses being at a fascinating inflection point in our understanding of human brain function and dysfunction. In the first part of this talk, Allan describes his research designed to improve understanding of communicative and...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Lee Zlotoff, Award-winning writer, producer and director of film and television, attempts to demonstrate that humans are a narrative species and that, underlying all our choices and decisions, there is, in fact, a story. What’s more, are the stories that are most likely to affect us fiction rather than non-fiction? Assuming that fictional stories might be the most likely to inspire change, what then could be the...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; The Panel of Jason Wilmot, mediaX at Stanford University; Mark Cassin, Curriculum Evangelist, Bluescape; Robert Seeliger, Sr. Project Manager, BitTubes; and Anh-Hoà Truong, Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University examine how new and emerging technologies will play a role in personalizing the media landscape.

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; The Panel of Keith Devlin, Co-founder & Executive Director, H -STAR Institute at Stanford University; Katherine Isbister, Research Director, Game Innovation Lab, New York University; Sebastian Alvarado, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology at Stanford University; and Romie Littrell, Health and Biotech Project Director, The Tech Museum of Innovation discuss the evolution of games and the importance is creating a...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Larry Leifer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design, Founding Director, Center for Design Research (CDR) at Stanford University, dives into “Hu-mimesis” a new class of media design requirements discovered at the Stanford Center for Design Research. The findings stem from research in their new-product design development simulator and studies of the autonomous-car / driver relationship. Leifer shares a live-action...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; James Landay, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, examines the many urgent problems facing the planet: a degrading environment, a healthcare system in crisis, and educational systems that are failing to produce creative, innovative thinkers to solve tomorrow’s problems. He illustrates how he’s addressing these grand challenges in research by building systems that balance innovative on-body user...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Joyce Westerink, Principal Researcher, Philips Research, studies how physiological signals like heart beats or skin conductance can reflect your state of mind. With wearable technologies signals can be used to continuously measure how people feel in their everyday life. In this talk, Joyce discusses how monitoring physiology can serve to make people more aware of what exactly is affecting their personal state of mind,...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Byron Reeves, Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication at Stanford University, shows how familiar technology — laptops, tablets and smartphones increasingly consolidate very different media experiences on single devices. His research group has been tracking how people use personal laptop computers by examining moment-by-moment changes in activity over the course of multiple days. There’s a lot of quick switching...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Chris Chafe, Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), DUCA Family Professor of Music at Stanford University, shows how mentally imagining voices and sounds in the “mind’s ear” is as much a part of experience as visualizing in the “mind’s eye.” The vividness of sounds in the imagination varies between individuals but nearly everyone reports spontaneous sound and...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Gordon Wetzstein, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science at Stanford University, discuss a wide range of unconventional applications that are facilitated by light field technology, a novel inexpensive computational display technology. Light field displays are expected to be “the future of 3D displays,” although many believe that the recent hype about...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; John Mitchell, Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor, School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, discusses how over the last three years, Stanford has experimented widely with online learning activities, at scale and in campus classes. Through the Lytics Lab and other research activities, we have also...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Byron Reeves, Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication at Stanford University, shows how familiar technology — laptops, tablets and smartphones increasingly consolidate very different media experiences on single devices. His research group has been tracking how people use personal laptop computers by examining moment-by-moment changes in activity over the course of multiple days. There’s a lot of quick switching...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Lee Zlotoff, Award-winning writer, producer and director of film and television, attempts to demonstrate that humans are a narrative species and that, underlying all our choices and decisions, there is, in fact, a story. What’s more, are the stories that are most likely to affect us fiction rather than non-fiction? Assuming that fictional stories might be the most likely to inspire change, what then could be the...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; The Panel of Jason Wilmot, mediaX at Stanford University; Mark Cassin, Curriculum Evangelist, Bluescape; Robert Seeliger, Sr. Project Manager, BitTubes; and Anh-Hoà Truong, Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University examine how new and emerging technologies will play a role in personalizing the media landscape.

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; James Landay, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, examines the many urgent problems facing the planet: a degrading environment, a healthcare system in crisis, and educational systems that are failing to produce creative, innovative thinkers to solve tomorrow’s problems. He illustrates how he’s addressing these grand challenges in research by building systems that balance innovative on-body user...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; The Panel of Jason Wilmot, mediaX at Stanford University; Gilberto Topczewski, Producer and CEO, bigBonsai; and Dave Toole, CEO, MediaMobz examine how the creation of content using new media technologies is a frontier of the mediaX science storytelling initiative and how use cases involving new media and new media technologies enrich our studies of people and the ways they use technologies.

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Joyce Westerink, Principal Researcher, Philips Research, studies how physiological signals like heart beats or skin conductance can reflect your state of mind. With wearable technologies signals can be used to continuously measure how people feel in their everyday life. In this talk, Joyce discusses how monitoring physiology can serve to make people more aware of what exactly is affecting their personal state of mind,...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; The Panel of Keith Devlin, Co-founder & Executive Director, H -STAR Institute at Stanford University; Katherine Isbister, Research Director, Game Innovation Lab, New York University; Sebastian Alvarado, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology at Stanford University; and Romie Littrell, Health and Biotech Project Director, The Tech Museum of Innovation discuss the evolution of games and the importance is creating a...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Allan Reiss, Howard C. Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Radiology, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences (CIBSR) at Stanford University, discusses being at a fascinating inflection point in our understanding of human brain function and dysfunction. In the first part of this talk, Allan describes his research designed to improve understanding of communicative and...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Larry Leifer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design, Founding Director, Center for Design Research (CDR) at Stanford University, dives into “Hu-mimesis” a new class of media design requirements discovered at the Stanford Center for Design Research. The findings stem from research in their new-product design development simulator and studies of the autonomous-car / driver relationship. Leifer shares a live-action...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Gordon Wetzstein, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science at Stanford University, discuss a wide range of unconventional applications that are facilitated by light field technology, a novel inexpensive computational display technology. Light field displays are expected to be “the future of 3D displays,” although many believe that the recent hype about...

From the #mediaX2015 Conference “Writing the Code for Personal Relevance”; Monica Lam, Professor of Computer Science, Director of MobiSocial Lab at Stanford University, explains why sharing is broken today and how the use of the open platform Omlet can help fix the current situation. To share today, we have to get our friends to join some social network, share according to the rules of that network, while giving up ownership of our data. Why can’t we just share anything we want with any...