The 8D Display combines a glasses-free 3D display (4D light field output) with a relightable display (4D light field input). The ultimate e…
Collaborating and media creation are difficult tasks, both for people and for network architectures. CoCam is a self-organizing network for…
Air Mobs creates a local mobile community to allow users to freely share Internet access among diverse carrier 3G and 4G data accounts. We …
"Where The Hel" is a pair of helmets: plain and funky. The funky helmet is 3D printed; the plain helmet visualizes proximity to the funky h…
ContextController is a second screen social TV application that augments linear broadcast content with related contextual information. By u…
"Encephalodome" (working title) is an art+science game under development for the dome projection (planetarium) setting of the Lower Eastsid…
When an environmental crisis strikes, the most important element to saving lives is information. Information regarding water depths, spread…
CoSync builds the ability to create and act jointly into mobile devices. This mirrors the way we as a society act both individually and in …
StackAR explores the augmentation of physical objects within a digital environment by abstracting interfaces from physical to virtual imple…
When crowd maps track an eco-disaster, social information isn't enough to determine the severity of the disaster. This Ushahidi plugin intr…
Flow is an augmented interaction project that bridges the divide between our non-digital objects and items and our ecosystem of connected d…
Functionally, television content delivery has remained largely unchanged since the introduction of television networks. NeXtream explores …
Truth Goggles attempts to decrease the polarizing effect of perceived media bias by forcing people to question all sources equally by invok…
The vast amounts of user-generated content on the Web produce information overload as frequently as they provide enlightenment. Twitter Wea…
We have trouble controlling our consumer impulses, and there's a gap between our decisions and the consequences. When we pull a product off…
NewsJack is a media remixing tool built from Mozilla's Hackasaurus. It allows users to modify the front pages of news sites, changing lang…
Droplet is a tangible interface that explores the movement of information between digital and physical representations. Through light-based…
Our smartphones take active attention while we use them to navigate streets, find restaurants, meet friends, and remind us of tasks. SuperS…
MindRider is a helmet that translates electroencephalogram (EEG) feedback into an embedded LED display. For the wearer, green lights indica…
Can your information on social networking sites be used to create emotional experiences? The Nostalgia Room ranks your Facebook photos base…
aireForm is a dress of many forms that fluidly morph from one to another, animated by air, reflecting the shifting of our own personas. Pne…
People form dynamic groups focused on topics that emerge serendipitously during everyday life. They can be long-lived or of short duration.…
Some of the world's most pressing problems can be traced to inequity between people, both in the present and over time. Long periods of ine…
SparkInfo enables users to create, exchange, and augment their audiovisual elements in ways that are personally unique and sociable. SparkI…
The BiDi Screen is an example of a new type of thin I/O device that possesses the ability both to capture images and display them. Scene de…
In Linear Mandala, a single participant wears a custom headset outfitted with an electroencephalography (EEG) sensor. The participant walks…
Takeover TV heralds a new era of bar patronage where you and your like-minded friends are in charge of the screens. When you check in at a …
PalimPost is a converged system for storing, searching, and sharing digital and physical world information using sticky notes and mobile de…
Dual-space drawing supports creative drawing and reflective learning experiences using dual layers: a screen display and a transparent disp…
Inspired by the Danish fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" and Lady Gaga�s Orbit dress, we have designed and implemented a costume, The …
Recently, multi-view display hardware has made compelling progress in graphics. Soundaround is a multi-viewer interactive audio system, des…
For 3D displays to be successful, they must be bright enough to compete with 2D displays and not diminish display resolution. To date, stac…
Qooqle allows people to reshape their interactions with computing and reorganize the world�s information through their casual conversations…
Part.Preview adds three-dimensional input and output devices to traditional 3D printers and fabrication machines. These enhanced capabiliti…
e-MotionInfo enables users to explore the harmonization of their movements, digital information, and responsive objects. e-MotionInfo creat…
CommenTV is a social commenting system for audiovisual content, able to take and display texts, images, and related videos as social commen…
Search engines often return millions of results to a query. Organizing these results is a challenge, particularly for visual imagery. Searc…
MatchMaker is an automated collaborative filtering system that recommends friends to people on Facebook by analyzing and matching people's …
What if you could see what the past looked like from where you are standing? What if you could relive any event that happened at your curre…
EmBuddy is a digital creature that senses its user's stress levels via an EEG headset. When EmBuddy's user is stressed, EmBuddy will wiggle…
Collective Power employs a new type of human-computer interaction by visualizing data in a socially and psychologically aware way. The typ…
How will life change as our surfaces become dynamic information displays? How will we use space tastefully and what kinds of interactions …
How do you get from a TV channel to a rich video archive, how do you get there automatically, and how can you use that content to create au…
What if the taste of your toothpaste told you the weather? Leave your smart phone weather app in your pocket. Tastes Like Rain dynamically…
The quality of communication, in all its various forms, is heavily dependent on the appropriate medium, timing, and level of trust between …
A collage of face pictures provides a bird's-eye-view over the Media Lab community, displayed on a public touch-screen. Contrary to hierarc…
Using your personal fabratory, explore a world in which 3D printers cost as little as today's inkjets and are found in every home. We've de…
CAMIT is a web-based front-end to milling machines like the Model-A and for our own in-house $75 milling machine, the Mantis Machine. It al…
Online games bring geographically separated people together in a virtual world. Board games bring people together in the physical world. QR…
The Meta Meta Project is an open-source movement aimed at accomplishing a simple, powerful goal: take in media, spit back metadata. The sys…
What if a building could sense what was happening inside of it, and tell the world? This project explores the concept of automated micro b…
Remember when we made a connection by handing someone a photo? Now we fiddle with too many cables, menus, and communication channels, and t…
We all use systems for organizing our cluttered schedules, from the day planner, to to-do lists, to methods such as Getting Things Done. Da…
We have a limited range of hearing, defined primarily by volume and distance. As one moves further away from a constant sound, it becomes q…
The Internet supports many great tools for communicating at a distance in order to maintain personal relationships and build social network…
The Salvage Table is a reuse system that educates participants about electronic items left for recycling. The Salvage Table breaks down com…
Coordination of and communication between large numbers of individuals, especially in situations that are prone to change rapidly, requires…
Constant Crit encourages Media Lab researchers to post their work in its earliest form, a concise one- to two-sentence statement. The syste…
Much of information visualization is done, as the name would imply, visually. While research has looked into haptic feedback to help humans…
If everyone says time is relative, why is it still so rigidly defined? There have been many attempts to address the issue of coordinating s…
While computer data can live virtually anywhere, we are still faced with the mundane tasks of document management such as uploading, sharin…
Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The Proximeter is both an agent that tracks the …
Even the most open content system is only as transparent as its interface. Taking cues from the timeless activity of annotating the margins…
We provide a software and hardware toolkit for creating an on-body network of tactile and ambient information accessories, connecting peopl…
Space Saver is a system for importing physical spaces into virtual environments. The project provides tools that lower the complexity barri…
InfoField aims to seamlessly connect physical space with the ubiquitous network, helping users select information in a dense RFID-tagged en…
OPEN I/O provides a hardware base and a suite of network services for the development of I/O devices. With OPEN I/O, we aspire to make the …
OPENTAG is an RFID development platform for advancing ubiquitous electronic tagging of items and people. With OPENTAG, we break through the…
RunLog is a simple Web application that keeps track of how much a user runs. For frequent runners, RunLog can be a useful tool to keep trac…
E15 is an experimental architecture that places the power of the presentation of Web content into the hands of those that use it. Based on …
The Physical Language Workshop designs tools for creating digital content in a networked environment, and the means by which the content ca…
OPENCODE is a programming tool, perhaps the most elegantly simple programming environment ever. It offers "two click" programming for the i…
PictureXS is a browser-constrained data repository that builds a semantic network of images and keywords. It explores issues related to use…
E15:oGFx is a dynamic openGL texture engine. It provides an interface to a dynamic procedural texture generation context that can be modifi…
This project explores how merging ubiquitous consumer electronics and the sociable Web can improve the user experience of these devices, in…
OpenLocker is a Simple Registration compatible OpenID authentication server. Users have lockers that act as their identity pages as well as…
Promiserver provides toolkits and services for online micro-contracts that are socially constructed, community enforced, and procedurally e…
For new members of a work community, it can be difficult to learn the social landscape of the organization. Where are the casual meeting ar…
FakeID is an OpenID server that gives you control over your online identity. With your existing OpenID account, you can use FakeID to creat…
The goal of the Metazine is to provide a jumping-off point for research into the magazine of the future. We have developed an application f…
SMPL is a software architecture framework aimed at supporting rich synchronous and asynchronous collaboration among people across the Inter…
This work presents an architecture for developing Web-based design tools that automatically generate searchable tutorials for every docume…
A fundamental question has arisen out of our current effort to create systems for digital media content authoring over the Web: "How do we …
SMPL Services is a collection of basic software technologies built around the SMPL core that allows applications to go beyond the level of …
The ability to author new kinds of digital media content rests upon two constraints: first, are there people that can imagine what is comin…