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Targeted Dream Incubation

What Is TDI?Targeted Dream Incubation is a method for guiding dreams towards specific themes. It is a proposal both magnetic and unl...

in Fluid Interfaces
Ishaan Grover · Tomas Vega Galvez +5 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +3 more
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Scientists engineer dreams to understand the sleeping brain

Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.

via The Scientist · Dec. 1, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +1 more
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +47 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +4 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Article Research

How do you control your dreams? MIT scientists think they've figured it out

Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.

via Mic · Oct. 1, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

A wearable sleep-tracker designed by an MIT team could give people the power to shape their own dreams

Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.

via Business Insider · Oct. 1, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions into your dreams

Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.

via Live Science · Sept. 25, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations

#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +24 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Tools for recording high-speed brain dynamics

The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...

in Synthetic Neurobiology
Edward Boyden
#robotics #bioengineering #health +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...

in Synthetic Neurobiology
Edward Boyden
#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +13 more
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Archived
Research
Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.

via MIT News · July 21, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

A focused approach to imaging neural activity in the brain

New molecule for imaging calcium in neurons reduces crosstalk from neighboring neurons.

via MIT News · June 26, 2020
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#neurobiology #imaging #cognitive science +1 more
Publication Research

The Thinking Cap 2.0: Preliminary Study on Fostering Growth Mindset of Children by means of Electroencephalography and Perceived Magic

Nataliya Kosmyna, Alexandra Gross and Pattie Maes. β€œThe Thinking Cap 2.0”: Preliminary Study on Fostering Growth Mindset of Children by means of Electroencephalography and Perceived Magic using Artifacts from Fictional Sci-Fi Universes. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 761–767.

Academic Paper, June 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognitive science
Project Research

The Thinking Cap 2.0: Fostering growth mindset of children by means of electroencephalography and perceived magic

In this work we suggest to harness the power of knowledge-seeking positive experiences, engagement, and curiosity that objects perceived ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna
#cognitive science
Project Research

Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#kids #learning #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Article Research

New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute

Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors.

via MIT News · Oct. 9, 2019
in Synthetic Neurobiology
#bioengineering #neurobiology #imaging +1 more
Article Research

Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America

To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT.

via MIT News · Nov. 19, 2019
in Object-Based Media · Personal Robots · Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #politics #social science +5 more

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