Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

8K-oi-Gan is a virtual koi pond in which koi patterns are generated by a StyleGan trained on thousands of images of koi and whose input noi…

https://everettlawson.com/biologically-encoded-augmented-reality-systems-integration-and-geometric-reform/Information floods the center of …

Spherical tissue deformation in electrostatic fields (NaCL+H20 suspension in hydrogel structure)https://everettlawson.com/biologically-adap…

Proprioceptive feedback systems for kinetosis (motion sickness) treatment and preventionhttps://everettlawson.com/neural-mismatch-model-for…

https://everettlawson.com/gyroscopic/Angle, inertia, and velocity are a subset of moment arms that when instinctively activated are biologi…

https://everettlawson.com/biologically-encoded-augmented-reality/The system architecture and methodology described here introduce a novel t…

COVID-19 and virtual commencements around the world were not what many universities had planned for the graduating class of 2020. Walking a…

LILLI is an immersive, volumetric, reflective lightfield display using a hybrid of video and laser projection to visualize marine wildlife …

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modular …

“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting”…

Bird is a hand-controlled pointing system that translates a user's finger movements and positions into the motion of a 3D pointer in a virt…

Bubble is a pneumatically actuated wearable system that enables people with handdisabilities to use their own hands to grasp objects withou…

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and create…

The Open Water Data project explores data physicalization as a path to community engagement and action on important environmental issues. F…

​ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. &n…

~~~This project is on indefinite hold due to COVID-19~~~What if we could leverage technology and modern cosmetics for good? To empower peop…

This pedagogy of experiments seeks to accurately model and manufacture a new form of lighting fixtures and framework around architectural l…

Design Daydreams is a digitally-augmented ideation table and post-it note that seamlessly connects the physical and digital content that de…

Looking Sideways is an online inspiration browsing tool that seeks to provoke unexpected inspiration and guide pathways to new ideas by&nbs…

MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable, 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to incre…

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based on …

From skin to light: an artistic dialog between cosmetics, lasers, and lighting between the human and microscopic scale. Cosmetics esse…

The electro-holographic video display (Holovideo) project has spanned over decades, beginning back in 1989, and continues to be a main rese…

We demonstrate a method for augmenting existing visual interfaces, including 3D and conventional displays, with haptic feedback capabilitie…

ModeSense is a full stack system that enables indoor environments to become aware of what is happening in them, and then enables the enviro…

A basketball net incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance ov…

The control of living systems as part of design interfaces is of interest to both the scientific and design communities due to the ability …

Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their fo…

What if our mobile devices could sense and then adapt to the spatial, temporal, and social context of their local environments? Imagine if …

Reframe is a creative prompt tool that juxtaposes language from a designer’s notes in surprising ways to provoke new associations between c…

ListenTree is an audio-haptic display embedded in the natural environment. Visitors to our installation notice a faint sound emerging from …

This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the artist…

A Live Object is a small device that can stream media content wirelessly to nearby mobile devices without an Internet connection. Live Obje…

The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we move…

Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communitie…

BigBarChart is an immersive, 3D bar chart that provides a new physical way for people to interact with data. It takes data beyond visualiza…

Narratarium augments printed and oral stories and creative play by projecting immersive images and sounds. We are using natural language pr…

Suitable for anywhere a "Pepper's Ghost" display could be deployed, this display adds 3D with motion parallax, as well as optically relayin…

ShAir is a platform for instantly and easily creating local content-shareable spaces without requiring an Internet connection or location i…

We are creating consumer-grade appliances and authoring methodologies that will allow hallucinatory phenomena to be programmed and utilized…

DUSK was created as part of the Media Lab's Advancing Wellbeing initiative (supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) to create priv…

Adding augmented reality to the living-room TV, we are exploring the technical and creative implications of using a mobile phone or tablet …

Pillow-Talk is a set of connected objects intended to assist in the capture and recall digitally stored dreams and memories via natural and…

4K/8K Comics applies the affordances of ultra-high-resolution screens to traditional print media such as comic books, graphic novels, and o…

Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projection …

A physical interface designed for simultaneous social interaction with visual material. We built a hemispherical, multi-person, interactive…

This project investigates soft mechanisms, origami, and fashion. We created a modified Miura-fold skirt that changes shape through pneumati…