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Hiroshi Ishii

Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Associate Director, MIT Media Lab
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Tangible Media research on front cover of Advanced Science May 2025 issue

E-LIG, laser-enabled method for flexible printed electronics, is on the May 2025 Advanced Science cover
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision and how it could help people cope with loss
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TeleAbsence: A Vision of Past and Afterlife Telepresence

A positioning paper in "PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality" that presents the design principles behind TeleAbsence
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Radical Atoms Exhibition at MIT Museum by Tangible Media Group

Radical Atoms: Making Bits Tangible and Atoms DanceThe MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group (TMG) explores the tangible and dynamic relatio…
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Fast Company's 2024 Innovation by Design Awards: FibeRobo

Congratulations to the FibeRobo project for receiving four honorable mentions!
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The Media Lab at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!
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Three Media Lab papers selected for honorable mentions at CHI 2024

Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.
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Tangible Media paper most cited of ACM SIGCHI

The paper authored by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer is from CHI '97.
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"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
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TeleSymbiosis

TeleSymbiosis project investigates Human-Nature Interaction through the creation of Sustainable Design Labs and tools for designers
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FibeRobo recognized at the International Design Awards (IDA) 2023

The FibeRobo project won gold in the Textile & Materials / New Technology Fabrics category.
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This liquid crystal fabric is ‘smart’ enough to adapt to the weather

Developed by a multidisciplinary team led by Media Lab student Jack Forman, FibeRobo is a low-cost, programmable, shape-shifting fiber.
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(Dis)Appearables

(Dis)Appearables is an approach for actuated Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) to appear and disappear.
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Shape-shifting fiber can produce morphing fabrics

The low-cost FibeRobo is compatible with existing textile manufacturing techniques.
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Research Group Overview: Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.
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TeleAbsence: Communicating Across Time

This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
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Joe Paradiso, Pattie Maes, and Hiroshi Ishii at launch of Institute for Future Technologies in Paris

The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…
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The Metaverse: What, How, Why, and When

Join MAS.S61 every Thursday for a public lecture on the Metaverse Connect at the link below:(NEW) Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/939…
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Hiroshi Ishii among newest cohort of ACM Fellows

Six with ties to MIT were honored as 2022 ACM Fellows
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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
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Hiroshi Ishii receives Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter Lifetime Community Contribution Award

Ishii gave his award lecture "Evolving Visions" at the International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction virtually on February 11, 2022.
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Hiroshi Ishii and Nataliya Kosmyna receive CAMIT Fall 2021 Grants

Congratulations to Labbers Hiroshi Ishii and Nataliya Kosmyna on receiving these grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT).
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New fibers can make breath-regulating garments

Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes
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Fast Company's 2021 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
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The Media Lab at the 2021 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!
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Media Lab Perspectives: Empowering End-Users through AI Transparency and Interpretability with Fernanda Viégas

Thursday May 13, 2021 …
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Media Lab Perspectives: Empowering End-users Through AI Transparency and Interpretability with Fernanda Viégas

We hope you'll join us for this segment of the Media Lab Perspective Series where Professor Hiroshi Ishii will welcome Fernanda Viégas
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Little Big e-Motion—Part of an academic research collaboration between Hyundai Motor Company and the Media Lab

Hyundai Motor Company recently unveiled a miniature electronic vehicle that uses Emotion Adaptive Vehicle Control (EAVC) technology.
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Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
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Making Digital Tangible: Hiroshi Ishii's ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Lecture on May 6th, 2019 in Glasgow

Thanks to ACM SIGCHI for the SIGCIH Lifetime Research Award!
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WraPr, a spool-based 3D fabricator

I thought I’d seen plenty of fab stuff done with filaments, but obviously I hadn’t seen it all. That’s pretty groovy.
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WraPr is a spool-based system for creating and modifying 3D objects

Known as “WraPr,” the system presents a novel fabrication method for creating new or augmenting existing 3D objects with soft materials.
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Orbiting, the new floating installation on the history of humanity

Artists and scientists from MIT united to create "Orbiting," an aerial archive of objects that trace the history of humanity.
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MIT’s visiting artist envisions floating, 3D-printed sculptures lighter than air

Thom Kubli, in collaboration with the Tangible Media group, on the development of a machine that can 3D print objects light enough to float.
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Tangible influence: A stroll through Hiroshi Ishii’s living legacy

Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research
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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
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SociaBowl equalizes across the table dialogue

MIT Tangible Media Group’s SociaBowl aims to promote positive social dynamics via a dynamic table centerpiece.
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Hiroshi Ishii wins ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.
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CONJURE helps people who are visually impaired play video games

Hackster.io profiles CONJURE, a project from the Tangible Media group that provides a tactile display for video games.