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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Maggie Coblentz is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of speculative recipes, tools for eating, and sensory experience...
Taking a taste of the sensory research of Space Exploration Initiative’s Maggie Coblentz
A multi-course tasting menu was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019. Five specially crafted dishes were consum...
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Looking beyond smart cities
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found...
PlusMinus
(Note: This project was previously called ECHOS.) Official Commalla website: https://commallamit.wixsite.com/commal...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...
Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
Marian Muthui talks about her career path, from mechanical engineering to design research.
Antenna-based topography that may serve as a platform to build musical instruments.This instrument allows the user to interact and c...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Enhancing human physical capability
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
ML Learning
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
In the Civic Media group, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodologies that serve a f...
M. E. Carney and H. Herr, "Electric-Energetic Consequences of Springs in Lower-Extremity Powered Prostheses on Varied Terrain," 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), New York City, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 989-996, doi: 10.1109/BioRob49111.2020.9224458.
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with th...
Middle school students reimagine the YouTube platform. Students consider the stakeholders in YouTube, the goal of the recommendation algo...
Designer partial water-soluble GPCR CXCR4QTY29 variant receptor retains ligand binding activity and in vivo cell singling.
We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or mask...
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the sk...
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...
Lighting conditions in an indoor environment have been shown to affect our cognition and behaviors in a variety of ways. On average, we s...
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've des...
What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Community Biotechnology
The “HIDW Young Talent” exhibition addressed three topics: Manufacturing of Tomorrow, Future Craft, and City Catalyst.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the resulting composites take on the fun...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research grou...
How teaching as a form of creative work can be better empowered with creative tools.
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based ...
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&n...
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak.
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Zhang, S. (2020) Self-assembling peptides: from a discovery in a yeast protein to diverse uses and beyond. Protein Science DOI:10.1002/pro.3951
Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...
We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...
Ahmad, Y. (2020). Tools that Lower the Floors, Widen the Walls, and Raise the Ceilings for Designing Creative Learning Experiences. (Masters Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...