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The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
Tourism is Cuba’s third largest source of foreign currency, behind the two dominant industries of sugar and tobacco. The number of visito...
The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT...
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
Is it possible to experience being another life form? Created by Yedan Qian (Umeå Institute of Design) and Xin Liu from the Flu...
HRQR is a visual Human and Machine Readable Quick Response Code that can replace usual 2D barcode and QR Code applications. The code can ...
Skrin is an exploration project on digitalized body skin surface using embedded electronics and prosthetics. Human skin is a means for pr...
KickSoul is a wearable device that maps natural foot movements into inputs for digital devices. It consists of an insole with embedded se...
Screen interactions have been shown to contribute to increases in stress, anxiety, and deficiencies in breathing patterns. Since better r...
Open Hybrid is an open source augmented reality platform for physical computing and Internet of Things. It is based on the web and Arduino.
As part of a Google-sponsored Glass developer event, we created a Glass-enabled improv comedy show together with noted comedians from Imp...
EyeRing is a wearable, intuitive interface that allows a person to point at an object to see or hear more information about it. We came u...
JaJan! is a telepresence system wherein remote users can learn a second language together while sharing the same virtual environment. JaJ...
FingerReader is a finger-worn device that helps the visually impaired to effectively and efficiently read paper-printed text. It works in...
Projected augmented reality in the manufacturing plant can increase worker productivity, reduce errors, gamify the workspace to increase ...
LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devi...
Fluxa is a compact wearable device that exploits body movements, as well as the visual effects of persistence of vision (POV), to generat...
The Reality Editor system supports editing the behavior and interfaces of so-called "smart objects": objects or devices that have an embe...
A web technology-based update of Smarter Objects and the reality editor project.
Cord UIs are sensorial augmented cords that allow for simple, metaphor-rich interactions to interface with their connected devices. Cords...
Bin-ary is a self-contained gas detector that analyzes organic trash odor compounds and releases a subtle burst of scent when bad odor is...
Social Textiles embody who you are and dynamically reflect your shared interests with people nearby. They enable you to gain access to co...
We are designing interfaces to enhance driver self-awareness through subliminal visual feedback and shape-changing materials. Advancement...
THAW is a reinvention of smartphones as a magical hand tool that intervenes into computer screens. The phone now becomes a link between t...
The Relative Size of Things is a low-cost 3D scanner for the microscopic world. It combines a webcam, a three-axis computer-controlled pl...
We study augmentation of the creative writing process through a new text editor. This text editor presents short-length snippets from boo...
We are exploring the use of wearable objects for capturing emotion. When the user experiences a particular emotion, she initiates the wea...
Fifty years ago, Doug Engelbart created a conceptual framework for augmenting human intellect in the context of problem-solving. We expan...
Today's computer screens are ill-suited for displaying large amounts of dynamic data such as stock market updates or control room data. T...
Can your information on social networking sites be used to create emotional experiences? The Nostalgia Room ranks your Facebook photos ba...
Platforms for creative collaboration are important for enhancing human communication and expression. While many researchers have explored...
Mouseless is an invisible computer mouse that provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real...
This project explores the idea that some "intelligence" is encoded in the habits that people assume in daily life. Adopting someone else'...
ReflectOns are objects that help people think about their actions and change their behavior based on subtle, ambient nudges delivered at ...
Pulp-Based Computing is a series of explorations that combine smart materials, papermaking, and printing. By integrating electrically act...
PoCoMo is an implementation of a vision in future-projected social interfaces. In this project we try to capture the playfulness of colla...
'PreCursor' is an invisible layer that hovers in front of the screen and enables novel interaction that reaches beyond the current touchs...
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It's common for us to attach different emotions to each moment in our lives, but when we capture and interact with them, we are often con...
PalimPost is a converged system for storing, searching, and sharing digital and physical world information using sticky notes and mobile ...
Spotlight is about an artist's ability to create a new meaning using the combination of interactive portraits and diptych or polyptych la...
MTM "Little John" is a multi-purpose, mid-size, rapid prototyping machine with the goal of being a personal fabricator capable of perform...
SpendTrend is a ReflectOn designed to allow its user to reflect on spending habits. Often we spend based on the momentary buying capabili...
MemTable is a table with a contextual memory. The goal of the system is to facilitate reflection on the long-term collaborative work prac...
subTextile is a toolkit for behavioral textiles: the intersection of on-body computation and electronic textiles focusing on the interact...
We have seen an explosion of data, but the tools necessary to understand it have not kept pace. Humans have innate spatial memory and spa...
Remnant is a greeting card that merges the affordances of physical materials with the temporal malleability of digital systems to create,...
TeleStory is a tangible interface for children to learn vocabulary through gestural experimentation. Children pair characters in a story ...
ReachBand is a wireless wristband with an RFID reader that can detect user interactions with everyday objects, such as holding a book or ...
Midas is a touch-based personalization system that bridges the gap between personal area networks (PANs) and explicit authentication. It ...
The system consists of virtual representations of a handful of people that react to what a person is currently reading, writing, or talki...
Information that is spatially or temporarily detached from us is hard to relate to our own personal lives. In addition, we are confronted...
We are using intelligent interfaces to spatially organize streams of incoming information into coherent themes. Theme Stream helps us to ...
Soundforms is a tabletop interface for collaborative composition. The shapes and sizes of objects are used as simple icons for controllin...
Imagine taking a digital picture with your new camera-phone and the picture is able to annotate itself. For example, if you are at Fenway...
In a digital, immersive world, e-book readers and flat displays are taking over what was once the realm of books. The reBook project atte...
ReachMedia is an interface for on-the-move interaction with information and services for everyday objects. The purpose of this project is...
The Sound of Touch is a new instrument for real-time capture and sensitive physical stimulation of sound samples using digital convolutio...
With the Relational Pillow project, we are trying to provide a simple, intimate, and personable communication medium between loved ones. ...
Light Piping, an installation of solar technology on the roof of the new Media Lab extension, will bring natural light into the old build...
WordPlay is a mutual tabletop interface for the generating, organizing, and exploring new ideas. Participants add terms to the table by s...
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group. It uses sop...
This work explores a technological answer to the perennial question "What's for dinner?" Few of us know with great certainty the exact fo...
Programming is the art of constructing a story about objects and what they do in various situations, expressed in programming languages w...
The Context Manager is a generalized framework for connecting a variety of pervasive sensor technologies and output modalities to intelli...
taggyMedia is an online interactive system that provides easier and more interesting ways of media search and exploration. By constucting...
Using the built-in camera of a mobile phone and inexpensive printed tags, users can leave and retrieve video messages in specific locatio...
Portrait of Cati 2 is an homage to the project "Portrait of Cati" done by Stefan Agamanolis. This portrait reacts differently to a man or...
As RFID technology matures, and PDAs such as smart phones become ubiquitous, the time is right to look at the future of RFID tags beyond ...
We are designing and testing an automatic system to calculate the usefulness of items on Web pages. Using this system, Web sites can adju...
People's tastes are their systems of aesthetic judgment and preference. Taste systems are generative�understanding the tastes of friends ...
The goal of this project is to allow a user with a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or PDA to gather personally relevant information about, a...
The most common functions of mobile devices involve alerting the user; whether notifying of incoming calls and messages or reminding of c...
Interactive teaching tools strive to make subject-material more interesting through a hands-on approach to learning. Using video projecti...