Cool Things I’ve Built At the MIT Media Lab

by
Juliana Cherston
M.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
BA Harvard University (2013)

Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences,

School of Architecture and Planning,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Media Technology

at the
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
September 2022

© Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022. All rights reserved.

Author
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
August 12, 2022

Certified by
Joseph A. Paradiso
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Thesis Supervisor

Accepted by
Andrew B. Lippman
Chair, Departmental Committee on Graduate Students
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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 Cool Things I’ve Built At the MIT Media Lab
by
Juliana Cherston

Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences,

School of Architecture and Planning,
on August 12, 2022, in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Media Technology

Abstract
Insert abstract here.

Thesis Supervisor: Joseph A. Paradiso

Title: Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

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 Cool Things I’ve Built At the MIT Media Lab
by
Juliana Cherston

The following people served as readers for this thesis:

Thesis Reader
Rosalind W. Picard
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Thesis Reader
Mani B. Srivastava
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles

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Contents

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1 Introduction 13
1.1 Historical Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.1.1 Inertial Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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List of Figures

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List of Tables

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Chapter 1

Introduction

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1.1 Historical Methods

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1.1.1 Inertial Technologies

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