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Space Exploration Initiative
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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing for, with, and by nature
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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Community Biotechnology
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Open Ocean
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Emerging Worlds
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Ethics
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Interaction Design category
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Advancing Wellbeing
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with ...
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DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
Terrestrial Sensing
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Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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Glass II: 3D printing glass at the architectural scale.
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