Research — MIT Media Lab

Preschool Oriented Programming Toolkit

How can we add the missing 'T' and 'E' in preschool STEAM education?

Marauder's Map

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."The Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter universe uses UltraWide Band transmitters and receive...

Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

Post Research

DuoSkin rolls out on the runway

From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.

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 ...

Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

FabricKeyboard

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...

DuoSkin

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...

FabricKeyboard turns textile into a musical instrument

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.

FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface

Wicaksono, I and Paradiso, J.A."FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface ", New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) May 15-19, 2017. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

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.

MIT researchers turned a strip of fabric into a high-tech musical instrument

Textile in G Major

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.

Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...

Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Reality Editor 2.0

The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...

Zensei: Embedded, Multi-Electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition

We introduce Zensei, an implicit sensing system that leverages bio-sensing, signal processing, and machine learning to classify uninstrum...

Zensei: Embedded, Multi-electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition

Munehiko Sato, Rohan S. Puri, Alex Olwal, Yosuke Ushigome, Lukas Franciszkiewicz, Deepak Chandra, Ivan Poupyrev, and Ramesh Raskar. 2017. Zensei: Embedded, Multi-electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3972-3985.

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

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...

8 ways technology is disrupting the design industry

Object-Based Media

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

Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

News Graph

This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...

Pillow-Talk

Pillow-Talk is a set of connected objects intended to assist in the capture and recall digitally stored dreams and memories via natural a...

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Tangible Media

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

DIVE

DIVE is a new data exploration platform that enables users to build rich stories from any dataset using just a few clicks. By combi...

Pillow-Talk: Seamless Interface for Dream Priming, Recalling and Playback

Rovables

We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...

Rovables: Miniature On-Body Robots as Mobile Wearables

Dementyev, Artem, et al. "Rovables: Miniature On-Body Robots as Mobile Wearables." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. ACM, 2016.

Reality Editor

The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...

Narrative Visualization for Distributed Urban Interventions

The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...

Neural Interface Technology for Advanced Prosthetic Limbs

Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...

Emotive Materials

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...

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THAW

THAW is a reinvention of smartphones as a magical hand tool that intervenes into computer screens. The phone now becomes a link between t...

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Experiential Lighting: New User Interfaces for Lighting Control

The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered ...

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