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Looking beyond smart cities
The need for inexpensive 3D display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to increase in popularity. Funnel Visio...
Space Exploration Initiative
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
Creating technology for social change
HyperCubes is an Augmented Reality application to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings,...
Cosmetics essentially diffract and scatter light in a way that makes the wearer appear different to the naked eye. In this project we pro...
LUI is a new Human-Computer Interface for interactive media on large screens and AR/VR platforms. It utilizes voice and gestures to natur...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Open Ocean
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with Hafencity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...
We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope plat...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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...
This is an open source geo spatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we...
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.
This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners cam...
Incredible documentaries, like Chasing Coral (2017) and Blue Planet (2001, 2017), tell the story of climate change and its impact on aqua...
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
Is it possible to experience being another life form? Created by Yedan Qian (Umeå Institute of Design) and Xin Liu from the Flu...
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...
Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...
Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.
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.
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
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...
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...
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.
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
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).
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...
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...
As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
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
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...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
RoomScope is an immersive real-time architectural sensor visualization using Microsoft HoloLens.