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Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ...
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a...
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-lin...
The City Science group uses simulations and visualizations to explain to stakeholders, including citizens, the various "what if" scenario...
One of the functions we are interested in supporting people with is decision making. We develop systems for supporting behavior change an...
Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...
By Martin NisserThe ability to deploy large space structures is key to enabling long-duration and long-distance space missions, supportin...
The Microsoft Azure Kinect is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) time-of-flight (ToF) depth camera which can provide high resolution near-...
​A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaborati...
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...
The Pandemic Supermind Activation brings together leaders in the biosciences and beyond, harnessing the power of ...
​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she defines justice as...
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...
Integrating sensors and actuators using flexible electronicsCurrently, the manufacturing of self-actuating and self-sensing robots requir...
An interactive picture book that explores storytelling techniques through paper-based circuitry. Sensors, lights, and microcontrollers em...
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual'...
We believe that the narrative of only listening to experts or trusting the wisdom of the crowd blindly is flawed. Instead we have develop...
The Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) aims at creating a "living" laboratory integrated in the real life of the Trento territory in Italy, ope...
We present Open Badges, an open-source framework and toolkit for measuring and shaping face-to-face social interactions using either cust...
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Do you work with graphics? Do you often find that an earlier version of your sketch looked more appealing? But then there's no way ...
(Or, How to Find an Equation for Every Picture)
Semi-Realistic Rotary Experiences is a set of six simulations of real life scenarios involving the gesture of rotating th...
Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds like “a death knell for co...
In this project, we are exploring ways to design technology that promotes healing and care for young people who have experienced foster c...
By Michael Luu
3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deepe...
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&...
The objective of this project is to experimentally asses the impact of gravity reference frame on the experience of Virtual Reality (VR)...
By Cody Paige & M. Regina A. Moreno
Project Overview The Space Grip Shoe (SGS) is an iconic concept presented across the history of space fiction, from 2001: A Space Od...
By Alvin Donel Harvey
By Rachel Bellisle
By Michelle LinIn microgravity, the proprioceptive system undergoes adaptations due to the lack of constant gravitational cues [1]. Photo...
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques f...
Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds “a death knell for coal an...
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
MicroPET aims to identify how microorganisms can efficiently degrade plastic waste and produce higher-value plastic materials, a process ...
MIT Environmental SensorsTerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary ...
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 14-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, s...
Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change...
By Xinyi Yang
By Aleksy Dojnow
By Ebru Kurbak
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...
​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of futur...
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and ...
The Lifelong Kindergarten group is designing OctoPlay, a new mobile phone app that enables children around the world to create with code....
Globally, depression affects more than 264 million people of all ages, and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several interactiv...
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an ...
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make...
Social deduction or deception games are games in which a player or team of players actively deceives other players who are trying to disc...
by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Uni...
Acu.ation is an intervention that aims to mediate the urge to smoke by pairing a wearable device that delivers transcutaneous electric ac...
Space architecture projects for the Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space course in partnership with the Center for Collaborative Arts and Med...
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...
Chameleon is a wall mounted sensor system that uses machine learning to classify building activity.We present the system as an alternativ...
The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a careta...
On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...
Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrate...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agen...
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...