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When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization...
We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the sk...
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
We imagine equipping electronic skins with a sense of attention in order to operate more efficiently in resource constrained environment...
Looking beyond smart cities
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
Lighting conditions in an indoor environment have been shown to affect our cognition and behaviors in a variety of ways. On average, we s...
Enhancing human physical capability
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as a easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desi...
We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for insta...
Regenerative agriculture, or “carbon farming,” is the use of agricultural practices and crops that draw down excess atmospheric carbon th...
The Passive Seismic Experiment was the first seismometer placed on the Moon’s surface. It detected lunar "moonquakes" and provided inform...
TransparenSea is an AI system that uses video from tuna longline vessels as input to identify dangerous fishing practices while at sea.Co...
Biological Carbon Pump (BCP), which refers to the transport of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the ocean’s surface to the bottom, d...
AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of glasses, which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagi...
Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics industry. In comp...
Microbial monitoring plays a critical role in informing governments, researchers, and locals on the health of their ecosystem. Unfo...
SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...
The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. Simultane...
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at ...
“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 b...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Cells’ biomechanical responses to external stimuli have been intensively studied but rarely implemented into devices that interact w...
Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-dem...
Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health.
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Clothing that monitors vital signs could be made possible with electronic sensors that have been embedded into stretchy fabrics.
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...
Its potential here on Earth has much more widespread benefit potential, particularly in the era of COVID-19.
Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
On an upcoming SpaceX launch (CRS-20), we are launching seven TESSERAE v3 hardware tiles to the International Space Station.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
We have significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the laboratory to develop novel bioengine...
Fluid Interfaces postdoc Nataliya Kosmyna discussed her AttentivU research for MIT xTalks.
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around us.Objects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is jus...
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
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...
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