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The Boycott Toolkit provides tools for consumers to organize collective economic action. Users can learn about the politics behind everyday…
Our bodies continue beyond our flesh and bones. Humans have constantly augmented their bodies with tools like clothing or automobiles, and …
Are electronic instruments that generate their own power better than those that don't? Can acoustic and electronic musical instruments be …
Selectricity (formerly HyperChad) is a Web-based voting system that supports anonymous and voter-verifiable balloting, and includes an elec…
Urban noise pollution has been a problem since the days of Buddha. Walkmans help, but issues of both social and accoustic isolation have be…
GroundTruth is a dynamic online map of changing topographic structures (roads, checkpoints, barriers, and settlements) and human narratives…
GoodApp is a cloud environment for the community development of socially responsible and transparent Web applications. It provides a shared…
Virtual Gaza is a space where ordinary Palestinians under siege can describe their experiences in their own words, and where the destructio…
No Park is a Web site for people interested in the hidden politics of the urban environment; the way public space is appropriated for art m…
The societal problem of physical abuse persists in part because of isolation and concealment. Emerging technologies have been adapted by ab…
Omo is an alternative relational object. While similar to "carebots" and companion robots, Omo draws on ongoing Machine Therapy work reveal…
While technologists scramble to develop technologies for production and storage of environmentally friendly electricity, we must consider o…
TextNet is a "distributed" wiki. While normal wikis are designed for groups to create a single document collaboratively, TextNet is built f…
About Us examines technology workplaces from a feminist perspective. The objective is to mobilize workers to collect simple gender-specific…
Freedom Flies is an inexpensive, open-sourced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for free press and human rights applications. Made from off-the-shelf…
Exquisite Corpus is a collaborative writing application that aims to explore new and more "indirect" forms of collaboration similar to thos…
Blendie is an interactive, sensitive, intelligent, voice-controlled blender with a mind of its own. Materials are a 1950s Osterizer blender…
Machine Therapy takes two forms: a series of wearable body organs (comforting armors) that are incorporated and used by participants, and t…
Wearable Body Organs are a series of digitally controlled, electromechanical wearable devices that respond to a set of psychologically and …
Internet spam is an overwhelming disease of the 21st century. With very elaborate devices, we go to great length to avoid seeing spam: junk…
"At the frontier, our liberty is stripped away...we enter the universe of control....We submit to scrutiny, to inspection, to judgment. We …
Protocols for Alternative Sexuality and Sensibility (PASS) is a wireless, networked system designed to function with a multidisciplinary de…
Endangered Senses is a wearable that allows people to experience a sense that endangered animals have but is not possessed by humans. The p…
Most modern electronic musical instruments are constructed of artifacts from the military-industrial complex. As their components become ob…
kiNET is an active wall that performs, changes, shifts, and adapts. The wall is no longer an opaque plane that encloses our bodies in a spa…
In this project, human-built spaces such as parks are acoustically analyzed and then permanently and publicly labeled.
While research has given us high-fidelity technology, such as 24-bit digital audio, the lush jungle of one-bit sound beckons to be explored…
In a high-population-density city, inhabitants must be prepared to defend their own personal space. Technologies that increase personal pro…
A pair of glasses that darken whenever a television is in view. The user should wear the glasses whenever she feels that she is likely to e…
Arabiia is a caricature of media stereotypes typically associated with arab women. Aside from exotic Daisy Duck with her dance of the seven…
We are developing low-cost, distributed sensor networks for grassroots environmental monitoring.
DJ I, Robot is the world's first fully robotic hip-hop DJ, able to cut, scratch, and mix records with three high-speed servo-controlled mot…
A wall that responds to its surroundings. By listening and interacting with the people around it the wall retains a memory of its experienc…
An upgrade to the ubiquitous iRx board, atmex is an Atmel "digital glue" microcontroller experimentation system (hardware, firmware, and so…
This project investigates relationships between and within bodies. Architectural bodies and living bodies communicate in this project throu…
Computing systems and electronic devices often frustrate users by seeming to have a will of their own. Designers and engineers thus general…
"Progress and catastrophe are the opposite faces of the same coin.� (Hannah Arendt, 1965) This research focuses on our perception of techno…
The Open Government Information Awareness program is an effort to increase transparency in the United States government. As the US governme…
Throwing Light is an exploration into computational display systems that surpass the traditional rectangular screen. Using conventional, of…
Technical devices are generally considered to be compliant instruments that are fully controllable tools, and from this perspective, humans…
Most computational systems take for granted the servitude of computers, hoping to make them invisible entities that intuit our needs, and s…