Laura Perovich
For my "How to Make Almost Anything" [HTMAA] class, I attempted to build holographic glasses for augmented reality. These glasses w...
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 vi...
We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...
ConceptNet, or Open Mind Common Sense, is a long-standing project designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people...
An 85-inch television screen combined with 8K resolution provides a tool through which multiple users can perform quick, highly detailed,...
Bubble is a pneumatically actuated wearable system that enables people with handdisabilities to use their own hands to grasp objects with...
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
The Open Water Data project explores data physicalization as a path to community engagement and action on important environmental issues....
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...
What if we could leverage technology and modern cosmetics for good? To empower people to explore identities? To give anyone, regardless o...
This pedagogy of experiments seeks to accurately model and manufacture a new form of lighting fixtures and framework around architectural...
We are surrounded by displays and technologies whose mechanisms are hidden from view. This work is an exploration of revealing the underl...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable, 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to inc...
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for a form of interacti...
From skin to light: an artistic dialog between cosmetics, lasers, and lighting between the human and microscopic scale. Cosmetics es...
The electro-holographic video display (Holovideo) project has spanned over decades, beginning back in 1989, and continues to be a main re...
We demonstrate a method for augmenting existing visual interfaces, including 3D and conventional displays, with haptic feedback capabilit...
LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...
ModeSense is a full stack system that enables indoor environments to become aware of what is happening in them, and then enables the envi...
A basketball net incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance ...
We designed, implemented, and tested a proof of concept, wrist-based wearable object identification system which allows users to “hover” ...
The control of living systems as part of design interfaces is of interest to both the scientific and design communities due to the abilit...
Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their ...
What if our mobile devices could sense and then adapt to the spatial, temporal, and social context of their local environments? Imagine i...
design(human)design is a tool that builds on insights about the design process inspired by research carried out at IDEO Cambridge. The id...
ListenTree is an audio-haptic display embedded in the natural environment. Visitors to our installation notice a faint sound emerging fro...
This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the arti...
A Live Object is a small device that can stream media content wirelessly to nearby mobile devices without an Internet connection. Live Ob...
The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we mo...
Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...
BigBarChart is an immersive, 3D bar chart that provides a new physical way for people to interact with data. It takes data beyond visuali...
Narratarium augments printed and oral stories and creative play by projecting immersive images and sounds. We are using natural language ...
Suitable for anywhere a "Pepper's Ghost" display could be deployed, this display adds 3D with motion parallax, as well as optically relay...
We are adding an olfactory dimension to storytelling in order to create more immersive and evocative experiences. Smell Narratives allows...
ShAir is a platform for instantly and easily creating local content-shareable spaces without requiring an Internet connection or location...
Archived TV programs evoke earlier times. This application combines a video and music archive with an immersive screen and a simple user ...
Networked Playscapes re-imagines outdoor play by merging the flexibility of the digital world with the tangible, sensorial properties of ...
We are creating consumer-grade appliances and authoring methodologies that will allow hallucinatory phenomena to be programmed and utiliz...
We have added inexpensive, low-power, wireless sensors to product packages to detect user interactions with products. Thus, a bottle can ...
Holographic displays offer many advantages, including comfort and maximum realism. In this project we adapt our guided-wave light-modulat...
The goal of this project, building upon work begun by Stephen Benton and the Spatial Imaging group, is to enable consumer devices such as...
DUSK was created as part of the Media Lab's Advancing Wellbeing initiative (supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) to create pr...
We are expanding the home-video viewing experience by generating imagery to extend the TV screen and give the impression that the scene w...
Adding augmented reality to the living-room TV, we are exploring the technical and creative implications of using a mobile phone or table...
Pillow-Talk is a set of connected objects intended to assist in the capture and recall digitally stored dreams and memories via natural a...
4K/8K Comics applies the affordances of ultra-high-resolution screens to traditional print media such as comic books, graphic novels, and...
Calliope was designed by building on the lessons learnt from the NeverEnding Drawing Machine. Rather than a static system that live...
An autostereoscopic (no glasses) 3D display engine is combined with a "Pepper's Ghost" setup to create an office chair that appears to co...
Following upon work begun in the Graspables project, we are exploring what happens when a wide range of everyday consumer products can se...