Joseph A. Paradiso

Responsive Environments
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Tapis Magique wins SXSW 2022 Student Innovation Award

Congratulations to project team researchers Irmandy Wicaksono, Don Derek Haddad, and collaborator Loni Landon!
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Tapis Magique nominated for SXSW Innovation Awards 2022 in two categories

Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.
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Design Exploration: Towards a Moon Architecture

Webinar Series " Design Exploration: towards a Moon Architecture" | Invited talks and students' projects.
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6th Webinar | Visions and Advanced Concepts | Arch. Georgi Petrov | SOM

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6th Webinar | Visions and Advanced Concepts | Arch. Melodie Yashar | ICON 

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7th Webinar | Human Factors Design and HCI | Prof. Olga Bannova | University of Houston - Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture

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7th Webinar | Human Factors Design and HCI | Prof. Guy André Boy  | Université Paris-Saclay 

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7th Webinar | Human Factors Design and HCI | Pat Pataranutaporn | MIT Media Lab 

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8th Webinar | System integration | Prof. Larry Toups | University of Houston - Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture

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8th Webinar | System integration | Dr. Barbara Imhof | LIQUIFER 

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9th Webinar |  Living in space | Prof. Julien de Wit  | MIT EAPS 

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9th Webinar |  Living in space | Astronaut Paolo Nespoli | ESA

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Webinar Series students

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10th Webinar | Inspirational talk | Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman | MIT AeroAstro 

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10th Webinar | Inspirational talk | Prof. Dava Newman | MIT Media Lab Director 

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10th Webinar | Inspirational talk | Eng. Massimo Comparini | Thales Alenia Space CEO

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Webinar Series Photo Gallery

Photo gallery of the Webinar Series "Design Exploration: towards a Moon Architecture"  with all the invited talks that contributed t...
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What the well-dressed spacecraft will be wearing

Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments
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Joseph A. Paradiso and Daniel Siewiorek guest-edit an issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing: "Attention—Yours vs. Theirs"

"We set out to explore this topic as projected into twin demons relating to attention."
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The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 2: Joe Paradiso- Take the Road Which Leads to More Roads

Responsive Environments head Joe Paradiso talks to Xapiens at MIT about art, physics, history, music, books and movies, and much, much more!
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Bringing precision to musculoskeletal health

Figur8, founded by alum Nan-Wei Gong, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.
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Video Friday: Nanotube-Powered Insect Robots

Including interviews with two Labbers—research specialist Kate Darling and Cyber Joe, a sci-fi version of Professor Joe Paradiso.
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Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows

As a part of Proseminar in Media Arts and Sciences, the newly-minted PhD cohort works together to envision future Media Lab research groups
Dec. 8, 2020
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Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
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Tales from Virtuality – Research under quarantine at the MIT Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.
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MIT’s robotic tail could aid crew operations in space

Developed by a team of Media Lab researchers, SpaceHuman is a seahorse-inspired additive prosthetic for use in microgravity environments.
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Jamming to Knitting, Music to Machines: Bringing interdisciplinary research to the manufacturing ecosystem

Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
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Hacking Reality

XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.
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ETH Zurich at the WEF – RETHINKING Creativity

KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
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Joe Paradiso in the podcast

He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso is in the new episode of our podcast.
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How that giant homemade modular synth wound up at MIT

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.
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Spinning data into sound

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion
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MLTalks: Neal Stephenson

Award-winning science fiction author Neal Stephenson
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Our extended sensoria

How humans will connect with the Internet of Things
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FabricKeyboard turns textile into a musical instrument

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.
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Probing into the Skin’s Abyss

Updates on the DermalAbyss project
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FabricKeyboard, la tastiera di tessuto del MIT

È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.
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MIT researchers turned a strip of fabric into a high-tech musical instrument

Textile in G Major
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MIT's Experimental Keyboard Is Unlike Any Instrument You've Seen (Or Heard)

In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.
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Media Lab sets sights on space

MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier. 
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Beyond the Cradle 2017 Speakers Gallery

Warren Ellis photo credit: Ellen J. RogersJoi Ito photo credit: Mizuka ItoJoe Paradiso photo credit: Sam Ogden
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These tiny, wearable robots can cling to your clothes and drive around your body

They may one day assemble into a screen on your arm.
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MIT Media Lab Exhibit Examines Technology's Transformation of Portraiture
Oct. 18, 2001
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Cross-Reality and Privacy
July 15, 2009
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Paradiso Guest Edits IEEE's Pervasive Computing