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Looking beyond smart cities
Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a project aimed ...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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
Space Exploration Initiative
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
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...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
Continuous localized tissue monitoring and disease treatmentThe ability to continuously monitor physical patterns, such as pH in the...
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area: an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that is being restored to natural wetland. As the restoration procee...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The esc-Pod (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work liv...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Lensless Imaging with Compressive Ultrafast SensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens...
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.
Advancing Wellbeing
Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
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.
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
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...
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
An experiment with the manipulation of a user’s self-expression in VR space and as well as the perception of others in it, prov...
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.
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
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
We use terahertz transmission through sedimentary rock samples to assess the macro and micro porosity. We exploit the notable water absor...
The MIT Media Lab collaborated with London-based theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform connected to their New York City p...
Early in the opera "Death and the Powers," the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own crea...
We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...
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.
Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, 2009.
Inspired by previous work in the field of sonification, we are building a data-driven composition platform that will enable users to map ...
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic perfor...
The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered ...