How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

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Things That Think
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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Spatial Imaging
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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NEXT
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
Center for Future Banking
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Digital Life
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Project Research

Quantizer: Sonification Platform for High-Energy Physics Data

Inspired by previous work in the field of sonification, we are building a data-driven composition platform that will enable users to map ...
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Music Visualization via Musical Information Retrieval

In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic s...
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Modular Light for Better Sleep

This project aims to build a modular lighting system where users can customize the design and lighting patterns.
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Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic perfor...
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Customizable Sensate Surface for Music Control

We developed a music control surface which enables integration between any musical instruments via a versatile, customizable, and inexpen...
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An EEG and Motion-Capture Based Expressive Music Interface for Affective Neurofeedback

This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and well...