Written Things by Stefan Marti

Theses

·  Active Messenger: Email Filtering and Mobile Delivery (September 1999, Master's Thesis in Media Arts and Sciences, 122 pages)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/thesis/am.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/thesis/Thesis.pdf

·  The Psychological Impacts of Modern Communication Technologies on Users (1993, German, Master's Thesis in Psychology, 283 pages)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/generals/psychthesis.pdf

Other

·  TinyProjector: laser diode based single-line of text projector for mobile communication devices (February 2003, 129 pages) [technical report and lab notebook]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/TinyProjector/
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/TinyProjector/TinyProjector.pdf

·  How does the user interface design of mobile devices influence the social impact of mobile communication? (January 2002, 21 pages) [qualifying exam paper]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/generals/mainpaper_social_impact.2002.02.18.pdf

·  WeatherTank: A Tangible Interface using Weather Metaphors (with Deva Seetharam and Hiroshi Ishii, December 2001, 2 pages) [draft for CHI 2001]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/tangible/WeatherTank_short.2001.12.07b.pdf

·  Active Messenger: filtering and delivery in a heterogeneous network (with Chris Schmandt, April 2001, 19 pages) [draft for Ubicomp 2001]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/thesis/active_messenger.pdf

·  The Adaptive Song Selector or Locator (ASSOL) (with Kwan Hong Lee, December 2000, 11 pages) [draft for Context ‘01]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/ass/
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/ass/ASSOL_20001219h_color3rd.pdf

·  Schmandt, C., Marmasse, N., Marti, S., Sawhney, N., and Wheeler, S. (2000). Everywhere Messaging. IBM Systems Journal 2000, Vol. 39, Nos. 3&4, pp. 660-677.
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/393/part1/schmandt.pdf
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/393/part1/schmandt.html

·  WeatherTank: Interface for Non-literate Communities and Ambient Visualization Tool (with Deva Seetharam, December 2000, 5 pages) [technical report]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/tangible/wt_20001211a.pdf

·  Free Flying Micro Platform (FFMP) lab notebook for independent study class "Building a Micro Helicopter that actually flies" (May 18th, 2000)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/FFMP/diary.pdf

·  Numerical Mechanisms and Children’s Concept of Numbers (with Natalia Marmasse and Aggelos Bletsas, May 2000, 9 pages) [technical report]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/society/som_final.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/society/som_final_natalia_aggelos_stefan.pdf

·  The OpenSource SpeechSynthesizer Project (May 2000, 4 pages) [technical report]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/osss/
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/osss/OpenSourceSpeechSynthesizer.pdf

·  How to Talk to a Papa-TV-Bot: Interfaces for Autonomously Levitating Robots (December 1999, 24 pages) [proseminar paper]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/FFMP/FFMP_Levitation.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/FFMP/FFMP_Levitation.pdf

·  The Zero G Eye: A Free Hovering Camera (December 1999, 12 pages) [technical report]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/HowTo/ZeroGEye.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/HowTo/ffmp_zero_g_eye.pdf

·  The Two-Way Pager: what it is, what people think of it, and how it changes their lives (December 1998, 13 pages) [class paper]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/systems/The_TwoWay_Pager.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/systems/The_TwoWay_Pager.pdf

·  J. Beal et al. (1999). The Development of a Small Autonomous Helicopter Robot for Search and Rescue in Hostile Environments. Proceedings of the AUVSI Annual Symposium, July 12, 1999, Baltimore, MD (11 pages)
http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/labs/gtar/iarcpapers/mit99.pdf

·  Free Flying Micro Platform and Papa-TV-Bot: Evolving Autonomously Hovering Mobots (May 1998, 8 pages) [technical report]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/FFMP/FFMP.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/FFMP/FFMP.pdf

·  Impressionist visualization of online communication (May 17, 1998, 6 pages) [class project]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/vsociety/final.html
PDF

·  Daboo - An interactive system to make a user guess a word as fast as possible (without using taboo words) (with Keith Emnett, December 1997, 14 pages) [technical report]
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/daboo/
PDF

·  The Strange Effects of Telecommunication on Human Beings (November 15, 1994, German 16 pages) (English table of contents) [talk]
Content of this talk is a combination of the results of my Master's Thesis and an early version of the Leonardo da Vinci-contribution
German Complete PDF
English TOC PDF
Not done: English Complete: probably worth translating?

·  A Few Considerations for the Future (award-winning contribution to IBM's 1994/95 International Leonardo da Vinci Contest, both German and English versions)
German Complete PDF
English Complete PDF

·  Intergenerational Justice (April 1993)
German Complete PDF
English summary PDF
Not done: English Complete translation

·  Music and Videoclips: Does a Videoclip Influence the Perception of Music? (1989, German, English abstract and table of contents) [pre-diploma study]
Almost done: German Complete: missing are the Harvard Graphics (scan or convert!) and other appendices
Not done: English Complete

·  Exploratory Study on Physiological Reactions and Linked Affections of Listeners of Modern Music (1986, German, 37 pages) [psychological study] (English abstract, table of contents, and introduction)
German Complete Scanned PDF
Not done: German Complete OCR PDF
Not done: English Complete

·  The duties of research and technology from the point of view of science, art, and the so called “natural evolvement” (whatever this might be) (1984, 23 pages) [vision paper]
German Complete Scanned PDF
German Complete OCR PDF
Partially done: English Complete

·  Silent Speaking Recognizer (March 2000) [probably not enough to make a paper]

Presentations, posters

Active Messenger

Lamp

Beads

British Airways