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Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...
Looking beyond smart cities
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...
Space Exploration Initiative
Open Ocean
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to incr...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Bauhaus artist Paul Klee described the line as one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described drawing as "taki...
Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.
Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projectio...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
“Happiness makes the world go round."
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...
LUI is a new human-computer interface for interactive media on large screens and AR/VR platforms. It utilizes voice and gestures to natur...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
Mina Khan, Fernando Trujano, Pattie Maes, "Mathland: Constructionist Mathematical Learning in the Real World Using Immersive Mixed Reality" International Conference on Immersive Learning
Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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...
Oasis won Silver at the Edison Awards 2017.Oasis received the Best Paper Award at VRST 2016.Oasis is a novel system for automatically gen...
As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
Cities need to work to ensure that AR makes the leap from “cool experience,” to a technology that improves residents’ lives.
We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope plat...
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at ...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
Ira Winder and the Tactile Matrix won the award for best demonstration at the IEEE Future Technologies Conference.
The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
Fuste, Anna, and Chris Schmandt. "ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
We only perceive a tiny sliver of the world around us. We are constrained by what our senses can process. These senses evolved to react t...
Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ...
Forbes Opinion article on HMDs, featuring Pattie Maes. By Charlie Fink.
Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
The Mobility Futures Collaborative in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the Changing Places grou...
Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...
Oscar Rosello, Marc Exposito, and Pattie Maes. 2016. NeverMind: Using Augmented Reality for Memorization. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '16 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 215-216.
Nest caterpillars in your arms, and watch the days pass.
Member company Isobar's collaborative research innovating in VR.
TreeSense è un simulatore di alberi per umani, ovvero un’interfaccia in realtà virtuale che permette di trasformare la persona in un albe...
Core77 Design Awards 2017: Student Runner Up Interaction Award
RoomScope is an immersive real-time architectural sensor visualization using Microsoft HoloLens.
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
In the Living Observatory installation at the Other Festival, we invite participants into a transductive encounter with a wetland environ...