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Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
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City Science Lab @ Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #data #transportation +2 more
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Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +68 more
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Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …

in Signal Kinetics
Ahmed Allam · Jack Rademacher +6 more
#data #energy #environment +3 more
Project Research

SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Elena Kodama +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +54 more
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You Are Here

You Are Here is an experiment in microurbanism. In this project, we are creating 100 maps each of 100 different cities. Each map gives a c…

in Social Computing
Sepandar Kamvar · Jia Zhang +4 more
#data #urban planning #mapping
Archived
Archived
Project Research

The Constant Atlas

An interactive atlas of census data for direct consumption by individual citizens.

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Jia Zhang
#civic media #data #mapping +1 more
Archived
Post Research

Signal Kinetics team wins Explorer Prize in Ocean Observing Prize's DISCOVER Competition

Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.

April 3, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#data #energy #environment +3 more
Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany. The …

in City Science
Kent Larson · Margaret Church +3 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #civic technology +3 more
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Project Prometheus

Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges—from Maya cenotes to urban aquif…

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell
#imaging #mapping #visualization +1 more
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Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land u…

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #data +4 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Sayed Afzal +4 more
#communications #data #energy +9 more
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
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Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes this …

in Scalable Cooperation
Ziv Epstein · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#social networks #crowdsourcing #networks +4 more
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Archived
Project Research

Radio Days

Following the 2016 election, the entirety of the nation became conscious of its polarization. According to a study by the National Bureau o…

in Viral Communications
Kallirroi Retzepi · Hisham Bedri +2 more
#civic media #mapping #data visualization
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CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +5 more
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Project Research

GeoBits

This is an open source geospatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we ca…

in City Science
Nina Lutz · Kent Larson +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Singapore Pedestrian Accessibility

This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners came …

in City Science
Nina Lutz · J. Ira Winder +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

GSK Places Initiative

This project is part of a parallel research endeavor with GSK Manufacturing. By simulating how scientists at the Upper Providence site inte…

in City Science
Nina Lutz · J. Ira Winder +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

GSK Manufacturing Initiative

This project is the first of two projects in collaboration with GSK. We are developing a computational simulation that allows a human user …

in City Science
J. Ira Winder · Nina Lutz +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
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Archived
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CityScope Riyadh

We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope platfo…

in City Science
J. Ira Winder · Mohammad Hadhrawi +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
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"Bits and Bricks" Wins Best Demo Award at IEEE Future Technologies Conference

Ira Winder and the Tactile Matrix won the award for best demonstration at the IEEE Future Technologies Conference.

Dec. 2, 2017
in City Science
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Project Research

Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…

in City Science
Kent Larson · J. Ira Winder
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +7 more
Archived
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Visible Communities

Vast regions of the world are unmapped by com­mercial services, and communities living there are digitally invisible. Visible Communities i…

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Michael Koehrsen +1 more
#design #human-machine interaction #machine learning +2 more
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