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Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability

MIT Media Lab

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Holobiont Urbanism: Revealing the Microbiological World of Cities

This project investigates urban metagenomics to reveal the invisible microbiological worlds within our cities. Using honeybees to gather sa…
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20 Day Stranger

20 Day Stranger is a mobile app that creates an intimate and anonymous connection between you and another person. For 20 days, you get cont…
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Hello, Operator!

Hello, Operator! is a vintage telephone switchboard from 1927, refurbished and wired up to a modern computer. It currently runs a time-mana…
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Sneak: A Hybrid Digital-Physical Tabletop Game

Sneak is a hybrid digital tabletop game for two-to-four players about deception, stealth, and social intuition. Each player secretly contro…
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Dice++

Today, algorithms drive our cars, our economy, what we read, and how we play. Modern-day computer games utilize weighted probabilities to m…
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GAMR

Does how you play reflect who you really are? The Media Lab and Tilburg University are bringing science into the game to figure out the con…
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Cognitive Integration: The Nature of the Mind

While we have learned much about human behavior and neurobiology, there is arguably no field that studies the mind itself. We want to overc…
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MicroPsi: An Architecture for Motivated Cognition

The MicroPsi project explores broad models of cognition, built on a motivational system that gives rise to autonomous social and cognitive …
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Tools for Super-Human Time Perception

Time perception is a fundamental component in our ability to build mental models of our world. Without accurate and precise time perception…
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Homeostasis

A large-scale art installation that investigates the biological systems that represent and embody human life, and their relationship to the…
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AutomaTiles

A tabletop set of cellular automata ready to exhibit complex systems through simple behaviors, AutomaTiles explores emergent behavior throu…
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Troxes

The building blocks we grow up with and the coordinate systems we are introduced to at an early age shape the design space with which we th…
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32,768 Times Per Second

The crystal oscillator inside a quartz wristwatch vibrates at 32,768 times per second. This is too fast for a human to perceive, and it's e…
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For Once In Your Life...

"For Once In Your Life..." is a site-specific interactive radio play that uses the various sensors in a smartphone to determine specific de…
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radiO_o

radiO_o is a battery-powered speaker worn by hundreds of party guests, turning each person into a local mobile sound system. The radiO_o br…
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EyeWire

The Seung Lab at MIT's Brain + Cognitive Sciences Department has developed EyeWire, a game to map the brain. To date, it has attracted an o…
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Darkball

Cristiano Ronaldo can famously volley a corner kick in total darkness. The magic behind this remarkable feat is hidden in Ronaldo's brain, …
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Storyboards

Giving opaque technology a glass house, Storyboards present the tinkerers or owners of electronic devices with stories of how their devices…
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DeepView: Computational Tools for Chess Spectatorship

Competitive chess is an exciting spectator sport. It is fast-paced, dynamic, and deeply psychological. Unfortunately, most of the game's dr…
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Soft Exchange: Interaction Design with Biological Interfaces

The boundaries and fabric of human experience are continuously redefined by microorganisms, interacting at an imperceptible scale. Though h…
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Designing Immersive Multi-Sensory Eating Experiences

Food offers a rich multi-modal experience that can deeply affect emotion and memory. We're interested in exploring the artistic and express…
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Case and Molly

Case and Molly is a prototype for a game inspired by (and in homage to) William Gibson's novel Neuromancer. It's about the coordination bet…
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Amino: A Tamagotchi for Synthetic Biology

Amino is a design-driven mini-lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the subsequent care and feeding of …
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Cordon Sanitaire

Named for, and inspired by, the medieval practice of erecting barriers to prevent the spread of disease, Cordon Sanitaire is a collaborativ…
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beneath the chip

Sculptural artifacts that model and reveal the embedded history of human thought and scientific principles hidden inside banal digital tech…
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