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Space/Craft explores sculpting in zero gravity. Making artistic works by hand is a fundamentally human act, but how will it transfor...
We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Attached is a detailed description of responsibilities of each member of the Finance team
In 2017, the MIT Media Lab set its sights on space. Just over two years later, the Space Exploration Initiative has grown ...
Hamama is a Media Lab spinoff company founded by City Science alum Daniel Goodman and Camille Richman.
"Loops" combines the work of the Lab's Synthetic Characters group, Merce Cunningham, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. ...
Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, and Shelley Eshkar collaborated on Loops, an exploration of Merce Cunningham's life and work.
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Advancing Wellbeing
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2018 CourseThis HCI (Human-Computer Interactions) course will explore the design space of Tangib...
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I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affil...
How might zero gravity space affect silk spinning, and what benefits might such material properties provide for digital fabrication and a...
Creating technology for social change
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
Tom Standage and Seth Stevenson talk to a range of experts about what Victorian-era polar exploration can teach us about space travel.
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
“Molecular Gastronomy in Zero G” explores the artistic and technical aspect of preparing food in space. Studying how food is created...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Motivated by the question "Why do people behave strangely while driving cars with GPS navigation systems?", we reviewed previous work in ...
Enhancing human physical capability
In microgravity, the removal of constant loading on the skeleton leads to loss of bone density and muscle mass. In order to counteract th...
Mechanical actuators for deployable systems on satellites are often complex, expensive, only designed for a single use, and too large or ...
Based on high precision sensing technology, NEC and the Affective Computing group are aiming to lead people towards healthier lifestyles.
Impenetrable darkness, extreme pressure, cold water, and disorienting equilibrium. Deep sea creatures live in a world that is closer to o...
Vik Parthiban and other AR/VR researchers talk to Wired about the future potential of gesture control for interaction design.
My latest research in Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots group has been on relational technology.
This course examines the theoretical underpinnings of the mission statement of the Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Beyond the Cradle
In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...
Haney, Max; Inocente, Daniel; Katz, Neil; Petrov, Georgi I., et al. "Moon Village Reference Masterplan and Habitat Design." International Conference on Environmental Systems. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, 2019.
Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
The Lut Desert of Iran is one of the most similar regions to Mars. Close to that area, there are vernacular adobe architectures that are ...
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover talks to Korea JoongAng Daily about “Symphony for the Koreas.”
An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and ...
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
Mediated Matter head Neri Oxman talks to ELLE about her work.
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...
Our planet’s warming climate presents an imminent and catastrophic challenge that will have far-reaching economic, social, and political ...
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...
In Solange Knowles’ 2016 single “Don’t Touch My Hair” she explained the sensitivities of Black women like herself who don’t want people t...
Last spring, you could find me every morning alternately sitting in a storage closet, a multipurpose meeting room, and a book nook beside...
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...
We have described validation of novel machine learning architectures for designing faster, safer, and more efficacious digital medicines ...
Sundeep Jolly, Bianca Datta, Vik Parthiban, Daniel Smalley, and V. Michael Bove Jr. "Experimental characterization of leaky-mode spatial light modulators fabricated via direct laser writing", Proc. SPIE 10944, Practical Holography XXXIII: Displays, Materials, and Applications, 109440V (1 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510174
Vik Parthiban, Rudolph N. Kohn Jr., Jinyang Liang, and Michael F. Becker "Experimental demonstration of precise holograms using complex light modulation", Proc. SPIE 9761, Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications VIII, 97610M (15 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2208316
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for a form of interacti...
Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019
Looking beyond smart cities
MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape.
The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What's the logical conclusion?
Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement (AMAI) is a music generation and playback system with the goal of steering the listener toward a st...