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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Object-Based Media

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

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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Essence

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
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Dressed in Data

This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the artist…
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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
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Kino

This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the bo…
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DuoSkin

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. Usi…
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Tranceflora—Amy's Glowing Silk

We collaborated with NIAS (National Institute of Agricultural Science) to genetically engineer silkworms to develop new kinds of silk for f…
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KnittedKeyboard

In this work, we have developed  a textile-based interactive surface fabricated through machine knitting technology. Our prototype exp…
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DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…
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Industry Talk | Tapis Magique: a choreomusical interactive carpet

Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment
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The printing ink on Naomi Campbell’s Pangaia sweatshirt was made from air pollution

Vogue reports on the collaboration between Pangaia and Media Lab spinoff Graviky Labs.
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This fashion label is making clothes out of air pollution

Pangaia is the first fashion label to print graphics using ink made out of toxic air pollution.
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Pangaia’s game changing collaboration draws carbon from air pollution to print textiles

Read about a collaboration between Media Lab spinoff Graviky Labs and materials science company Pangaia, both founded by Media Lab alums.
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FabricKeyboard

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a m…
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Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
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On-Face Olfactory Interfaces

We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or masks,…
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Design Fiction

Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
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Kicks x Cliques

Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhear…
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bioLogic—Science Advances

Cells’ biomechanical responses to external stimuli have been intensively studied but rarely implemented into devices that interact wit…
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Jamming to Knitting, Music to Machines: Bringing interdisciplinary research to the manufacturing ecosystem

Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
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ETH Zurich at the WEF – RETHINKING Creativity

KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
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Orbit Weaver Suit

​​​​​​​​​The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with Xi…
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Fresh takes on "sustainability"—except call it ecology

Neri Oxman, Abrima Erwiah, Tracy Reese, Gabriela Hearst, Eileen Fisher, Karina Givargisoff addressed the issue at UN Women USA event.
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Future Fur: A collaboration in fashion, design, and technology

Researchers have come up with an innovation that will delight the fashion industry and people concerned about animal welfare: 3D-printed fur
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Cilllia: 3D-printed micro pillar structures for surface texture, actuation, and sensing

In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well-k…
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Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance

Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004
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BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Amores, J., Hernandez, J., Dementyev, A., Wang, X., Maes, P. "BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing," Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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ChromoSkin

Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the materi…
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DuoSkin selected as a finalist in the 2017 World Technology Awards

DuoSkin was one of four finalists in the Design category of the 2017 World Technology Awards.
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A bacteria-laden shirt that ventilates in response to sweat

In 2013, bioengineer Wen Wang, then a research scientist at MIT, attended a talk on how Bacillus spores shrink in response to falling relat…
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DuoSkin rolls out on the runway

From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.
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FabricKeyboard, la tastiera di tessuto del MIT

È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.
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MIT's Experimental Keyboard Is Unlike Any Instrument You've Seen (Or Heard)

In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.
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8 ways technology is disrupting the design industry
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NailO

NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thickne…
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These temporary tattoos turn you into a temporary cyborg

March 17, 2017 - MIT Media Lab's DuoSkin won the SciFi No Longer prize at the 2017 SXSW Innovation Awards.
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DuoSkin wins 2017 SXSW Interactive Innovation Award

DuoSkin is a winner of the 2017 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards.
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Dezeen's top 10 visions for the future according to 2016
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Awakened Apparel

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

Fablur explores the limit of the self in its relationship to others through the medium of clothing. The augmented gown uses a rear dome pro…