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Designing wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
Creating art for social transformation
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Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at MIT’s Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI team ...
Subramanian, S., Barbieri, R., Johnson, K.T., Brown, E. "Characterizing Electrodermal Activity Using Point Processes in Young Children," 50th Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2018.
When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...
BeeMe is the first Reality Augmented Game. In times where algorithms make most of our decisions for us, one individual will entirely give...
Following the 2016 election, the entirety of the nation became conscious of its polarization. According to a study by the National Bureau...
A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
Open Hybrid is an open source augmented reality platform for physical computing and Internet of Things. It is based on the web and Arduin...
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and Virtual Reality headset to improve ...
With the advancement in Virtual Reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication th...
Skrin is an exploration project on digitalized body skin surface using embedded electronics and prosthetics. Human skin is a means for pr...
PalimPost is a converged system for storing, searching, and sharing digital and physical world information using sticky notes and mobile ...
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
Fluxa is a compact wearable device that exploits body movements, as well as the visual effects of persistence of vision (POV), to generat...
TeleTouch lets you touch and control from far. See thru your smartphone's camera and control EVERYTHING you see on the screen by touching...
The way we represent ourselves in social media is intangible. What we choose to wear is public to the world and we are aware of it. In co...
ShowMe is an immersive mobile collaboration system that allows remote users to communicate with peers using video, audio, and gestures. W...
PoCoMo is an implementation of a vision in future-projected social interfaces. In this project we try to capture the playfulness of colla...
Mouseless is an invisible computer mouse that provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real...
Looking beyond smart cities
Move Your Glass is an app built using the JavaScript-based Wearscript library to communicate with the native sensors and camera on the de...
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
Room-scale virtual reality opens up exciting new possibilities for exploratory learning. Phenomena that otherwise cannot be experienced d...
Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality
Incredible documentaries, like Chasing Coral (2017) and Blue Planet (2001, 2017), tell the story of climate change and its impact on aqua...
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Participants in cryptocurrency markets are in constant communication with each other about the latest coins and news releases. Do th...
Dementyev A., Hernandez J., Choi I., Follmer S., Paradiso J., "Epidermal Robots: Wearable Sensors That Climb On The Skin" In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2 (3), September 2018.
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...
Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
Our social networks influence our sense of what's possible: we can't aspire to be a cancer researcher, activist, or artificial intelligen...
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...