A Handheld Device for Realtime Spatial Movement, Remote Control and Perspectival Orientation between Physical objects and Digital 3...
This is an open source geospatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we ...
This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners cam...
This project is part of a parallel research endeavor with GSK Manufacturing. By simulating how scientists at the Upper Providence site in...
This project is the first of two projects in collaboration with GSK. We are developing a computational simulation that allows a human use...
Cities around the world are striving to improve livability by way of reducing dependency on fossil-fuels cars. How might we leverage the ...
RePlace is a 3D data visualization platform that takes the normally invisible activity of sensors and data loggers and overlays that info...
Planning a city is a complex task requiring collaboration between multiple stakeholders with different, and often conflicting, goals and ...
We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope plat...
Real-time geospatial data is visualized on an exhibition-scale 3D city model. The model is built of LEGO bricks, and visualization is per...
We demonstrate how the CityHome, which has a very small footprint, can function as an apartment two to three times that size. This is ach...
The robotic facade is conceived as a mass-customizable module that combines solar control, heating, cooling, ventilation, and other funct...
Designed as a platform to enable rich contextual data collection in real homes, BoxLab uses a broad array of wireless sensing devices to ...
Mobility on Demand (MoD) systems are fleets of lightweight electric vehicles at strategically distributed electrical charging stations th...
MITes (MIT environmental sensors) are low-cost, wireless devices for collecting data about human behavior and the state of the environmen...
The "Barcelona" demo is an independent prototype designed to model and simulate human interactions within a Barcelona-like urban environm...
By 2030, nine billion people will populate the globe and six out of every 10 will live in cities. The future of global food production wi...
This project investigates soft mechanisms, origami, and fashion. We created a modified Miura-fold skirt that changes shape through pneuma...
QuitoLab will incorporate both architectural and CityScope LEGO models of the historic core of Quito to engage local and visiting communi...
The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility ...
Air and water pollution are well-known concerns in cities throughout the world. However, communities often lack practical tools to measur...
Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily...