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A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…
Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular decon…
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standard…
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio-reactor for urban bio-sensor development.
Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses CO2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Community-scale profiling sensor node for ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities.
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desig…
More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
A modular, membrane protein design based biomimetic sensing system named RESENSA (Receptor S-layer Electrical Nano Sens…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of gla…
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of data …
Shape displays can be used to render both 3D physical content and user interface elements. We propose to use shape displays in three differ…
Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Our group develops technologies that can see through walls and perform motion capture through occlusions. To do so, we rely on wireless sig…
JettSen is an open source mobile sensor system that enables citizens, urban planners, and city officials to collectively address urba…
Whispers Of The Mountain is a sensor system mounted on snow skis. The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…
TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…
We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ne…
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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 p…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectivel…
“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 by …
RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It con…
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and powe…
Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…
Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a mi…
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mult…
When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the skin…
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT. At the…
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and th…
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site w…
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (ROS…
Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around us.Objects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is just …
Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-sens…