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Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
With the advancement in Virtual Reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication th...
Looking beyond smart cities
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...
Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
Space Exploration Initiative
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
Continuous localized tissue monitoring and disease treatmentThe ability to continuously monitor physical patterns, such as pH in the...
MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, t...
Batteries wear out, but breathing, sweat and body heat might provide alternative fuel.
With our Ubiquitous Sonic Overlay, we are working to place virtual sounds in the user's environment, fixing them in space even as the use...
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...
Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.
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...
The esc-Pod (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work liv...
Cells’ biomechanical responses to external stimuli have been intensively studied but rarely implemented into devices that interact w...
Lensless Imaging with Compressive Ultrafast SensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens...
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 ...
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
Advancing Wellbeing
Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
How Canan Dagdeviren is going about setting up a new research group at the Media Lab.
Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-dem...
Can a modified snap bracelet be used to land infrastructure on an asteroid? It is notoriously difficult to stick a landing on a low ...
The Conformable Decoders group is now home to a state-of-the-art cleanroom called the "YellowBox."
Piezoelectric sensors have many applications including as vibration sensors, accelerometers, energy harvesters, and even electronic drum pad
Getting in Touch with Your Inner Stomach: An ingestible and flexible piezoelectric device enables sensing of changes in the GI tract.
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around usObjects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is just...
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...
FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.
Media Lab researchers are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.
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.
È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Textile in G Major
In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.
Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evo...
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
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
We use terahertz transmission through sedimentary rock samples to assess the macro and micro porosity. We exploit the notable water absor...