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Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
ML Learning
Looking beyond smart cities
While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Advancing Wellbeing
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic computation and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
“Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world.”—Oskar Fischinger, 1951.Almost 70 years ago, when...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Bernal, Guillermo, et al. "PhysioHMD: a conformable, modular toolkit for collecting physiological data from head-mounted displays." Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ACM, 2018.
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projectio...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Receptive Skins envisions a living building that silently interacts with air and temperature
With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...
Bernal, Guillermo, and Pattie Maes. "Emotional Beasts: Visually Expressing Emotions through Avatars in VR." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
Transforming data into knowledge
Creating technology for social change
A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...
The Thinking Cap provides help to students in need: the cap looks into the wearer’s head and detects his or her capabilities or cognitive...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change b...
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.
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...
LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devi...
Translating ambient sounds of moment into tangible and shareable memories through animated paperWe present a tangible memory notebook–reM...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
Designing for, with, and by nature
Enhancing human physical capability
As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
FingerReader, a wearable interface that uses audio and haptic feedback to enhance the reading experience, was selected for a 2017 Go...
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, t...
Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, set out to underline the close connections between art and technology.
HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...
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...
Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...
“A few years ago, I was flipping through a fashion magazine and saw that Beyoncé had these cool metallic temporary tattoos."
Our dream is a sci-fi future, where dreams are controllable. We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mi...
The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...
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 ...